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I had used Brave for several years and switched to Chrome two months ago. Brave had been very buggy, some websites not loading, unable to complete checkout at many sites. I kept having to use Safari to check out. I finally decided to try other browsers. I tried Mozilla which I had used for about 10 years before Brave. Not a good experience, passwords and bookmarks did not transfer well. Ad blockers poorer performance.
Then I bit the bullet & changed to Chrome. I have resisted because I don’t trust Google’s privacy protection.
The switch to Chrome was a dream. Browsing is significantly faster >20%. Moving passwords & bookmarks from Brave was flawless. I made an export file from Brave and used Chrome options to import. There is a limit in the number of entries which initially stymied me but you can open the export file & remove entries you don’t use to get below 150kb.
I still use AOL mail (yes I’m one of those) and mail loads great. User name & password fill in much more quickly on all sites than on Brave. I was not able to get shipping addresses to move over but they need only be saved once and then they populate.
I am very happy with the switch & would never go back to Brave or Mozilla. I did have to audition several adblockers with Chrome. The promoted one Adblock plus was POOR, Total adblock was not satisfactory, uBlock Origin is great.
I hope you get some feedback on Opera. I have never used Opera.

Brave had been very buggy, some websites not loading, unable to complete checkout at many sites.

that was the problem I had with Brave. I tried it very early on and I had convinced some of my online friends to try and they love it. I had too many nits to pick with it and gave up...maybe too soon ?

I would stay away from Google Chrome unless you really like for them to have every detail of your online life. As for Brave, I’ve been using it for years now and am happy with it even with the occasional issue it has on certain websites. I expect that the issues you have encountered with Brave are associated with things going on behind the scenes which you probably would rather not function as you visit those sites. When it comes to legitimate websites which I expect are still collecting data I would rather not share (but have to in order to use the site) I use another browser... But only for that single use. IMHO, a browser that is performing a little slower because it is actually blocking unwanted things, is okay by me.