> That's like suggesting that someone using LLMs to assist coding, could save themselves the trouble by writing the code by hand.

No it's not.

> Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. The whole point of the extensions framework is to allow modular extensibility. And it's much easier to vet for malware than to code afresh and maintain.

No, quite the opposite. FF has a history of adopting extensions as baked-in functionality if they prove useful/popular enough. There are tons of examples of this from the past for various features, which is great.

But that fact makes it even more absurd that they refuse to do the same for what is likely their most popular extension of all time: uBlock Origin