They seem so directionless lately, and by god is AI the wrong horse to bet on for their users.

I should check out LibreWolf…

Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?

It’s Mozilla that’s slowly enshittifying, Firefox itself is theoretically insulated from the worst decisions they could make, but those safeguards are going to be put to the test real soon I bet.