Who is the new Stephen King? I suppose answering my question will automatically also give an answer to yours.

Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

In practice lot of applications hard-coded some elements' color while following the theme for other elements, making dark theme unusable because you end up with black text imposed by the developers over the black background you choose for your theme, and other similar issues.

An arrestation is a violent activity. Something doesn't stop being violent because it's justified.

I use Firefox since it started. At first because I liked it's license. Later because I was in love with the way I'd did things and the add-ons ecosystem it spawned. The first major disagreement came when the search bar merged with the location bar. Then FTP support was disabled. Then RSS bookmarks thingy was removed. Then that stupid hamburger menu appeared. Then features I don't even understand like Pocket appeare. But I continued to use Firefox because the alternatives were worse. Now I keep using Firefox because of apathy and I'm basically the boiled frog of lore.