Curious about what needs you had that Brave didn't fill?

I can't say what it's like on Linux or Windows, but the Duck browser is pretty good. It's my second choice.

On Macs and iOS, and iPadOS, it's clunkier than Safari, but less clunky than Firefox.

Perhaps the Windows experience is similar.

Apple can hold out indefinitely. If a website doesn't work on Apple devices, that's not Apple's fault, according to legions of Apple users. And they're kinda right: there really are a lot of them, and they do tend to spend more money than other users, so websites that somehow manage to stupidly not work on Safari (presumably by using Chrome-only functionality and never testing) are potentially losing a lot of users and business.

I'm not normally a fan of Apple at all, and I have no interest in using Safari myself, but here I am glad that they've so far refused to jump on the Chrome bandwagon: it's good for keeping the web standards-based so we don't have a repeat of the IE6 days.