Agreed. I went from 20+ years of Firefox (back to the earliest days with the .zip files and just dumping binaries into a folder) to Brave a couple years ago.

I'm the same way. Turn off crypto by default (is it these days?) and that's pretty much it.

I like how they host selected Manifest v2 extensions themselves so uBlock Origin latest continues to work and is actively maintained.

Speed of Chromium with privacy focus. Works for me.