I don't think anyone was opposed to Pocket-the-product, but its integration into Firefox.

I used it long before Mozilla purchased it and continued to use it for years after, but jumped ship because years went by without any updates to the product. IIRC it hasn't received a single update between approximately 2019 and 2021. It felt abandoned long before today.

I used Pocket since it was called Read-it-Later back in 2011/2010. It was one of the first things I'd install onto every device I owned.

I used it until their dreadful redesign in 2023.

I got a _lot_ of use out of Pocket.

I've also used it for several years, but it really was never great compared to anything else in this space and seemingly stopped any feature development years ago.

The biggest problem for me was that they just completely gave up on paywalls, at a time when viable workarounds finally became widely available (e.g. iOS share sheet extensions being able to inject JavaScript into Safari to collect the content, which is what many alternatives do). Completely useless for reading paid news.

My feelings are 30% annoyed (because I still have some data in there), 70% hopeful that a thoroughly mediocre contender is going a way and some more consolidation in this market might finally create critical mass for and focus on some open-source, data-exportable solution in the way Omnivore unfortunately couldn't.

I loved it when it was called read-it-later and was a standalone add-on. Requiring a Mozilla account made me stop using it.