And people conveniently forget: The Mozilla Foundation is a warm and fuzzy non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation, where significant portions of the foundation’s money comes from, is a company that acquires other services (like Pocket) and mostly monetizes through search engine royalties and the like.
Yes, MzF has great foundational principles and MzC has yet to be demonstrably evil. But remember when one of Google’s core principles was “Don’t be evil”?
At the end of the day: We as people want there to be variety in browsers (unless you are a web developer at which point you want to shove a fork in my eye for even saying that). If everyone had just leapt to Firefox then, odds are, we would be in a similar mess right now with people smugly accusing everyone of “sacrific(ing) your freedom long term” for not siding with Google.