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TL;DR: They added a stupid chatbot feature. Fuck Mozilla as of late.
For clarity: they added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into.
Fair enough. They added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into instead of working on anything more pressing.
To me this doesn't sound like a massive amount of work went into this, it's just a sidebar that displays a web page.
Pretty much the same thing happened with Pocket. "Why is Pocket integrated to Firefox?" "Well it's a project wholly owned by Mozilla. If you don't like it, you can just remove the button." "Well I still don't like it at all - can I remove it entirely to reclaim some of the bloat?" "What bloat? It's just a button and a few web API calls, disk/memory saving would be negligible."