"Most of us using Firefox are doing so because it's a far superior browser" 

Opera out of the box does what FF requires add-ons for. Not that means FF "sucks". or Opera is "superior." I use Opera 95% of the time, but I also use FF, IE, QTWeb and Safari. Each one has its pluses and minuses IMO YMMV.

If Rendo has nothing to fear from lost members, then logically, they would not make any changes to the new policy. The fact that changes are already under serious consideration suggests that they are at least somewhat concerned. Either that or they suspect that temporal pugnacity may reap negative karma points in the afterlife :-)

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken