sad times
i hope you reconsider your course... opera was always about choices and functions, i for one don't think the world needs another of the only slim/fast browsers... that niche is filled with chrome and maybe safari, i really don't think it's wise to try to compete there.
goodbye opera. you destroyed everything that made opera unique and worth using.
there was a time when i would rank opera among the top 3 software masterpieces. it's a shame how it ended!
:(
goodbye
the rendering engine is irrelevant. the way the product utilized it, i.e. the gui and its features, made opera unique. you took that one unique selling proposition of yours away - without providing any new unique selling proposition in return (or at least you massively failed to communicate/deliver the new use cases properly, i.e., how the removed features should be replaced by your "new" ones).
very, very sad. i'd rather change the operating system than lose (old) opera.
if i switch, it will be because the opera dev team has not achieved a fully featured, useful browser like the 12/11/previous series were. opera is opera because of the extreme customization and plenty of features (fit to width, zooming, and word wrap, etc.) that no other browser used. take away that, and you kill opera. it doesn't matter what you call the next browser; it will not be opera. and i will be a sad customer (i use opera on the desktop on linux and windows and on android) and will have to abandon opera for firefox, a browser that is not even in the same league.
thank you
i love you, but you will be dead, i am very upset now.