thank you! im glad i managed to turn my thoughts into something semi-coherent
Taken to the extreme: I dropped out of college once programming stopped being fun. Hopefully you have a short quarantine (or a fun long one). Welcome to Neocities by the way!
I am currently using Pale Moon if you haven't already heard or evaluated it. I don't proclaim any special knowledge about it. When I adopted it, it still had the ability to turn javascript on and off which I found especially nice. Unfortunately, they have since made that option harder and so I have had to adapt to that development. Still, the bulk of my browsing is with Firefox and Pale Moon, should that help you.
Maybe not original but bares repeating. This AI stuff getting shoved everywhere is such a waste of space, time, and resources.