To play devil's advocate... Firefox incorporaing random AI features for whatever corporate funding / CEO schmoozing in addition to normie appeal, while also making it easy to disable AI, seems like a least worst case for Firefox in the current moment without plunging itself into further irrelevancy.

I for one am not keen on having to install a chromium based browser so I'm feeling pretty generous towards Firefox doing what it has to do to survive.

And for all the Stallmanites on here, there are obscure FF forks for you, WHICH Firefox's continued existence and survival (which may require some corporate AI BS) depend on, I might add.

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Get out your straws... it's time to slurp up the slop!

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I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.
It's total Ubislop (people call it Far Cry Pandora), but it looks really good on my system and the repetitive "base capping" gameplay is actually pretty fun.
Sometimes I'm flying around floating islands on my dragon dragon in 4K HDR and Avatar film officially licensed euphoric world music comes on and the whole experience really hits.

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In this day and age I don't think it's fair to be negative to any dev, large or small, about openly wanting to support Linux, even via Proton.

The only compatibility issue I've run into with Proton vs. native is on my 2014 MacBook Air running Arch. Apparently Proton doesn't work well on the Haswell iGPU and so Proton games don't really work, but native ones do.

Most often on my modern desktop, Windows builds via Proton run better than native.

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