I will personally vouch for Brendan Eich as good guy. A fairly conservative, pro-life, family man. He is trying to make Brave work as a business model and that may mean misjudgments along the way. He is human. All things considered this is minor.
In my attempt to continue with Brave on win7 I hit a dead end.
The Brave I got now eats memory and will crash my machine within 24 hours of running.
When I try the Brave embedded upgrade or update it fails and won’t perform.
So I close it and use Waterfox.