I’m having trouble understanding the causality here. Why does shipping an entire version of Edge improve speed?
First, the system “web” philosophy is always “tie the engine to the platform, move in lock step so nothing ever breaks”
It’s best to think about Windows proper like Debian.
The releases are stable and inoffensive.
Cue the web, introduced to solve the problem of “reality doesn’t exist on a software roadmap”
Where the browser engines update daily now and have for decades because
The people have spoken
So for Microsoft to compete, they need to break their own windows philosophy and err towards rolling release, which feels more like Arch in practice, but is fundamentally why their system web view is out of date enough that their innovation teams need to ship an even more Edge web kernel, pun intended.