Why not choose a browser that doesn't have those things built-in in the first place, rather than choosing a browser full of things you don't want and then turning them off.

Especially as Brave, the company, has a history of being less than honest about its browser decisions.

The opinion "crypto bad" isn't universally held.

For those who don't share that opinion the inclusion of features like the built-in wallet, the native(-ish) support for IPFS, and domain name resolution for cryptocurrency-based TLDs is valuable functionality.

Why use a Chromium fork that has those things over just Chromium?

I see my coworker use Brave every day and each time they open a new tab it’s some crypto ad. Why would anyone want that?

The article is talking about iOS. Apple doesn't let you run Chromium on iOS. Are there any iOS Safari wrappers that can match Brave's ad-blocking abilities?

Orion browser[1] with uBlock Origin works pretty well for me.

[1]: https://kagi.com/orion/

Takes 3 seconds to disable

Default Firefox installs also show you random websites on the new tab page that basically amount to ads. We can quibble over whether or not the quality of the content is worse or better in one browser but it’s not fundamentally different. And in both browsers you can disable it permanently in a few clicks. I really don’t see how anyone can complain about one and not the other