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Once upon a time IE6 was the dominant browser engine.
And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.
When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that's exactly what would have happened. "Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can't access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc"
You don't have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.
You have a choice as an individual today, but you might not in a few years.
And it took some painful decades to change that.