It’s not technical and more political.
Google is a surveillance company with a huge impact on web standards thanks to its insane market share. Apple on its side uses its forced monopoly to prevent websites from competing with its app store. Gecko depends on Mozilla that depends on google for 90% of its revenue, and is today a good “look we’re not a monopoly” excuse for google.
I don’t think people want a new engine because the current ones don’t work. They want a new engine because they want the web to be truly open.
It’s developedby Google?
They’ve never had more users.
And if you had spent 3 minutes looking at r/Signal or the support forum before they disabled SMS you would have seen how many people were confused by the feature.
They don’t have a client but both allow you to just download the game and run it from a .sh
that installs it in the local folder. That’s enough for me but I agree it may not be for everyone.
Itch and GOG have decent linux support
https://sepiasearch.org