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Safari really couldn't exist in the app store, considering that many third-party apps have links that open a page in Safari and thus it needs to be always installed. I take it this is sarcasm?
They don't have links that open a page in Safari.

They have http:// URIs, which happens to invoke Safari as the registered handler on every iPhone.

There's no reason (other than Apple policy) why that URI handler couldn't be registered as Opera or Firefox. That's how it works on other platforms.

Even on the iPhone developers can register most URIs (e.g. myuri://) to start up their own apps as long as it isn't a protected one, unless they changed that recently.

I have third party apps on my laptop that have links which open a page in a browser. Doesn't mean I can't delete Safari or get updates to it outside of system updates. If I delete my browser and then can't get links to open it sounds like I'd need to install a browser.

There are reasons why you wouldn't want a browser though, which at the moment you can't do.