That requires personal responsibility, you're asking for too much. We need some big government-like behemoth like Apple to step in and tell people what to do.
My point is that I don't understand why the GP brought up the poor, which are kind of a wild card ("won't someone think of the poor???"), when they are perfectly capable of returning books in time.
They still are the fastest and the most secure, and Manifest v3 is faster than uBlock Origin since no javascript code needs to run.
I won't be using Chrome anymore once they implement this since I like my element-hiding rules which I wrote myself, but for the common rabble, Manifest v3 will be an improvement.
Off-topic: because of this, I was thinking of moving to Vivaldi and it's really sad how unpolished and slow their UI is... it's almost as if it was a beta, still. I wonder if they use it themselves...
It seems to me that they want to reinvent the entire Chrome UI but they don't have the necessary manpower to do it properly.
To me it feels weird to use binaries from outside the repos, period. On Windows double clicking an exe file feels natural. On Linux "chmod +x something && ./something" is icky.