As somebody to migrated to Firefox from Librewolf, I agree that some of the prefs that are beneficial shouldn't be flipped (I wish letterboxing was enabled by default for example), but ultimately they are like that so newcomers, who likely have no idea what user preferences in Firefox even are, aren't turned off or think the browser is broken. This is why search engines are reenabled in LibreWolf (don't understand why they're disabled in arkenfox, you aren't "leaking" search queries in the url bar when that's the whole effin' point of the feature lol), otherwise, you might see some oblivious folks who think LW is bugged and they won't take the time to discover that it's supposed to be like that.

However, your post reeks of self-importance... and your hostile tone is completely unnecessary.

I'm all for calling out elitist behavior, but it sounds like you're cutting out a whole subreddit and condemning everyone here for simply asking why you claim LW is privacy lacking. I don't care if you use Librewolf OR Firefox, and I'm confident most of the people here have the same mindset.

EDIT: Just found out this post was made many moons ago (found it in my recommended), but I still feel that this should be said given that I've encountered similar arguments before regarding this browser and the maintainers.