A quarter century of Mozilla - my sincere gratitude

One must remember that until Firefox 68 the mobile ecosystem was the same as the desktop: same addons, etc. Then a Great Rewrite took place in which addons were to come "later." And this kept getting watered down: a small curated set would be permitted, all of course only to come from the great anointed repository in the sky.

That's one reason why I run Iceraven on mobile, it's one of a whole ecosystem of volunteer efforts that seek to make Firefox serve the user, rather than the overlords, by either stripping phoning in (e.g. Waterfox and others), or restoring functionality to mobile, as Iceraven does.

That such forks are even necessary says something pretty rude about Mozilla's attitude towards its users.

No, but Kiwi does, and it's pretty decent in other aspects.