Edge was never going to be that once Microsoft gave up on their own renderer. It's just Chrome with a Microsoft skin now.
On the other hand, it's exciting that Kagi is working on Orion. Ladybird will be interesting too. Maybe manifestv2 deprecation will start another browser war...
It's just Chrome with a Microsoft skin now.
Microsoft could've made it look like IE and attracted a lot of that crowd with "same familiar UI, better rendering", but instead they decided to take the dumbed-down UI that Chrome had and add more MS-specific yet largely-useless or hostile features.