Slogans have always existed. Poking at them and calling them snarky doesn't stop them from being condensed talking points. Or from being an observable reality.
A little over ten years ago Firefox was doing well. In the time since then it has not fared well at all. Looking at what has changed since then is a very valid thing to do.
b) This has nothing to do with "wholeness" and everything to do with Google pushing chrome as hard as they can.
- There is android phones, and I am pretty sure some Google services would advertise it to you - Chromebooks are used in most public schools across America
c) Eich later went on to found Brave. Have you ever seen anyone in the real world use Brave? They passed 50M users one year ago: https://brave.com/2021-recap/
Wikipedia states 63% of people used the internet worldwide in 2021: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
that is 4.9 billion people. So, brave has a market share of, drum roll, 1%.
In conclusion, the argument that Eich would have led them to success is not a good one, in my opinion.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2014...
Their leadership simply became captive to Google's money and began slowly sinking the ship while making it look like the orchestra is still playing.
Hmm...I wonder what could have happened almost ten years ago to do this? Oh yeah...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...
Go woke, go broke. It may take some time for it to happen but sooner or later it will. It is inevitable once you start choosing for political associations and political goodwill over actual technical skills and knowledge.