Replace "Go" with "Internet Explorer", and see how that reads:
"My response to the plea in this article is simply "No thanks." If Internet Explorer gets that bad, I'd be happy to use "works best on internet explorer" banners, or migrate to another browser, or whatever needs to happen. But until then, I'm not going to preemptively switch ecosystems and banish technically good options from my tool belt because I have fears about what could happen.
I want production quality websites and animations. That's hard. Internet Explorer has a high quality library of windows-specific functions. Hard. Internet Explorer has a fast browser which leverages windows-specific optimisations great. Hard. Internet Explorer has an incredibly liberal interpretation of web standards, making other browsers break 99% of the time, affecting most of my target users. Very hard. Some of those hard solutions are self-inflicted by the choices made in the browser, but the fact that they are so ubiquitous and integrated with the microsoft ecosystem so well is what makes it valuable. If the web standards are missing the many lovely MS-specific extensions of Internet Explorer, a more standards compliant browser would have less value. A standards compliant browser with a tiny user base by comparison would be even harder of a sell.
I am by no means trying to say that Netscape is low quality or not interesting for anyone. In fact, I actually think Netscape is cool. It is not the only other smaller browser I like. I have a strong affection for Opera as well. There are unique properties that make these browsers desirable. Netscape addons are really cool for example. I like stuff like this.
But: I also think Internet Explorer is a great piece of production-quality software. I know many people hate the browser now, especially now that the honeymoon has thoroughly ended. But I still like it. I feel highly creative in it, the ecosystem is good, and at the end of the day, I know I can make reliable, flashy websites in it.
Corporate control is a shame, but the truth is that corporate control is not the problem at all. The problem is funding. Because anyone can try to deviate from web standards and implement windows-specific extension hacks in other browsers, but can you pay maintainers? Can you run the CI, the website and playground, host the CDN with the downloads? Etc. Sometimes the answer is yes, especially with how much SourceForge supports a lot of those things, but in general the answer is no.
"Corporate control" is not the problem itself. Governance is just an outwardly visible consequence. The true control comes from maintainership and stewardship. Because if nobody is stepping up to the plate to take that role of introducing microsoft hacks in browsers, then whoever is doing it today effectively has control over the internet."