When you actually read the developer discussions and “reasoning,” it’s shocking how much the Firefox devs were and are deeply invested in making Firefox more difficult to use for fake security. And just worse in general. Some are true believers, of course. But many seem to actually deeply despise their users and want them to fail.

Perhaps being a dev in a large, very visible project is like being on help desk? That also tends to cause hatred towards those you are supposed to be helping.