> Why would they bother? Firefox - Android or desktop - runs full/regular uBo just fine.

gorhill himself stated[0]:

> This is unfortunate because despite uBOL being more limited than uBO, there were people who preferred the Lite approach of uBOL, which was designed from the ground up to be an efficient suspendable extension, thus a good match for Firefox for Android.

[0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...