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Because they're planning to cripple ublock and other adblockers in manifest v3? They also made it so that chromium can't sync with Google accounts anymore. I love vivaldi too and I hope they are able to survive whatever Google is planning.
It is a monopoly. They've been doing crap like not adhering to common standards and adding their own stuff on top so that chrome compatible websites might not work in Firefox. That wouldn't be the case if they weren't so big so as to force others to follow whatever design choices they make.
I perfectly understand that chromium is not chrome. Unfortunately the development of modern web browsers is so fast and complicated that it isn't possible to maintain a fork that is secure by a small organisation. You can do cosmetic things like Vivaldi or brave or whatever but forking the engine itself is a herculean task. See how well palemoon or waterfox are faring.
Brave has been criticised for their in-browser shady crypto and most recently about sharing user data to be used for training AI, or something along those lines. In contrast ublock or umatrix are completely transparent plugins created by the community that has pretty much become the standard.
Vivaldi has adblock built in as well, but I'm not a huge fan of that either.