Brave uses chromium and they cut WEI out of their build already.

so shortly after WEI goes live in Chrome, Brave users won't be able to:

  - use youtube
  - watch "premium" video content (disney/netflix/...)
  - use online banking
  - visit sites with adwords

and will be presented with endless captchas on e.g. cloudflare sites

Yes and? How does that contradict my original point?

it doesn't

but you're missing the entire point

if brave doesn't implement WEI then brave ceases to be a functional web browser

it will have voluntarily removed itself from the market

I didn't miss that point. I'm well aware of that point - WEI is a nightmare. This thread is about something else though.