Will say as well that Brave is much, much better out of the box for privacy than Firefox. Even with uBlock Origin and other privacy-friendly extensions, Firefox doesn't offer much in the way of anti-fingerprinting.

I agree, Brave has pretty good privacy protections, anti-fingerprinting and ad-blocking out of the box. No need to install dozen of extensions and custom user.js like in Firefox. Only extension that I need is password manager and I'm good to go.

Brave on Android is also best Android browser I used.

That pretty much sums it up. The only thing I regularly miss is Firefox's Awesome bar (Omni bar) - its fuzzing engine works much better and seems to include the entire browsing history.

Imagine if speed or color was your only concern for your car.

Choosing a feature like speed which is arbitrary and relative seems overly reductive.

this has been my experience. i even prefer some parts of the firefox ui. but for the reasons you mention, the net result is that then i have to run two browsers which means twice the work, complexity and risk.

i hate this. i really want firefox to succeed and i really appreciate their stated goals with respect to privacy, and their significant contributions to the internet commons.