That sounds like a problem with linux.

The problem is that there are regulations passed to centralize requirements on censorship, it helps incumbents by making it too burdensome for new companies to enter the market. Existing corporations publicly state their desire to let the government be the arbiter. It's a delicate balance and governments prefer to act slowly to ensure the right outcome.

This is dogmatic reasoning. If censorship wasn't necessary, neither would the government. At sufficient scale, humans stop behaving in the best interest of the group, and you need ways to correct that. It'll never be perfect, but much like democracy, we don't know of a better system.

Is this why every recipe page starts with long prose and makes it a maze to see the recipe?

Except it's not. HN users aren't representative and all trackers show no discernable uplift of Firefox usage since manifest v3. There also exists chromium based browsers with continued v2 support.