For non-developers, which is most people, those are non-issues. Safari is excellent for the things that matter: speed, power usage, and integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem.

Agreed. Although Firefox is probably better for general purpose browsing if you are a non-dev power user, especially one who cares about ad blocking.

The integration is a good point.

Have you tried Safari Developer Previews? It's been a while since I've used them myself.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/

I have not. I don’t think they have any extra dev tools though; it’s just the later version of the browser (which, granted, may include improved dev tools). And you still need to be on latest macOS to run it.

But thanks for the tip on the preview releases; I’d forgotten about those. I’ll check them out.