I think just generally since they laid off their core devs and their CEO took another bump to their salary.
I have no idea where to go now. Ungoogled-chromium seems promising
Ungoogled-chromium is good and is better than what came before it, Iridium, but it's still largely the efforts of one guy like Waterfox or Pale Moon. For many years, Avant *was* a one-man browser. Emphasis on was.