I had reported this issue with this machine over a year ago and at the time other issues with Brave caused me to stop using it altogether. Posts here and on Reddit and Twitter did not garner any response so I took the scorch earth approach. Still the limit of 6 web sites on NTP still makes it less than desirable. Will probably stick with the release builds of Brave being installed.
Whether I will continue with Brave as my default browser has yet to be determined due to the amount of struggle during 2 weeks that I had getting both of these Windows10 machines to operate properly with Brave. I had outlined the struggles I had with Brave in a separate post