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Given the standards are basically written because of chrom(ium) features I fail to see how that’s surprising. Firefox, which is literally a browser company, has twice as tests failings compared to chrome.

Yes, Safari has more failures, but I would not call it “stupidly behind.” Safari is a decent browser and works well (I use it everyday professionally and personally and have next to no issues).

EDIT: I’d like to point there are a lot of “failures” I’m glad are actually not implemented in Safari (e.g. the accelerometer API should not exist in a browser, nor should the API to make my device vibrate, etc.).

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It’s the least capable browser on the market with the highest number of bugs by a huge margin and produced by the richest company in the world.

It’s not by any reasonable standard a decent browser judged against its peers.

They do less and they do it worse but with more people than Firefox at least.

> It’s the least capable browser on the market

Most likely, but like I said above, I’m glad for that.

> with the highest number of bugs by a huge margin

I don’t know… The last time I tried to use the web (I had no other choice) I had a bug in Firefox, which did not exist elsewhere… My usage was the most basic there is. Literally showing a page w/o js.

As usual YMMV, but honestly I’m pretty sure most of the hate Safari gets is not deserved.

Safari would get no hate if you could freely replace it with other, more capable browsers. It's specifically Apple's attitude towards alternatives that highlights how utterly incapable Safari is.

I really don’t get this trend “it’s my device I should be able to do whatever I want with it.”

No! There’s literally absolutely no reasons why this should be true. As long as you’re not lied to and that the situation don’t change, you buy whatever you want, but don’t go complaining later that you cannot do what you want with what you bought.

Apple has always be very clear from the start: they have a closed ecosystem (which is being pried open by the EU currently, which I find baseless as per my previous §, and that I dislike very much as one of the reasons why I buy Apple devices is because of the close ecosystem, not despite it).

Being a closed ecosystem does not entitle you to imposing whatever harms you'd like on the market. If that were true, there would be no effective regulation of business - Microsoft would have just shrugged off the DOJ's suit against them. Netscape who?

You can feel however you want about it, your opinion as a customer is one of the last things considered when proving anticompetitive harm. No company ever, not the least of which being Apple, has ever escaped anticompetitive scrutiny for being "very clear from the start". If anything, it just goes to show how incapable and reluctant the US is when forced to regulate it's own domestic business.