What kind of a Mickey Mouse (tm) operation providing a private and secure web browser wouldn't have fixed such issues from the start? Doesn't help me trust them.

They just pull from the Chrome repository before adding their own things, I dont know what you are expecting

Its like you never heard of Brave

You can just ask them to disable it and now you have your fictional higher standard team shrug emoji

I guess you did mention that you dont use Chrome, so this level of distrust is going to be foreign for most of us to relate to