

I use fennec fdroid quite often, and a myriad of firefox forks like iceraven. But chromium based browsers are undoubtably the better experience for me, they kill my battery far less, they perform better, and have less bugs, especially when you go to utilize things like desktop mode, and ofc you also inherit many of the same issues that desktop browser has like not being able to properly render gradients https://degmods.com/ is an example of one such website.
and while many people may not care about features like webusb, firefox does lack said features too. This all makes it a very hard sell to replace chrome with firefox.
Is it better to try and fail 10% of the time, or to not try at all and fail 100% of the time?
Play protect is an extremely useful feature that deters uneducated people from installing APKs because yes, the vast majority of times for normal folk, they are malware ridden. Google does try to prevent malware from getting on the play store, and they actually do a phenomenal job, but in the end, it’s always going to be a cat and mouse game, and shits gonna slip through. It’s still better then not trying at all.