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It's a built-in cryptominer, it's the ideological concerns about the crypto-bros in charge, it's the insertion of their own ads, it's the insertion of their own referral codes into users' links, and it's the fact that aside from all that under the hood it's just the Chromium browser so why not just use plain-ass Chromium if you're into that.
Brave is better equipped than even Ungoogled Chromium against most online fingerprinting and stuff. I don't like Brave Rewards and the crypto stuff but then most of the them are either opt-in by default or easy to disable. You can even disable the VPN feature entirely using a chromium flag (about:flags). Also, the BAT stuff isn't based on mining, just ads. The affiliate link thing was scummy for sure though.