Hear, hear! 
I have elaborated my thoughts on the topic here: Newer build removed half of what I liked about Brave
I have faith that the Brave browser is simply suffering from growing pains after a code rebase. Sriram has made me feel much better about it. The great danger is in the perception that you had of it becoming just a modded Chrome becoming widespread due to the fact that it now looks and handles much more like Chrome than like its own past versions. Not everyone is going to come here and find out what’s going on. Most will simply jump to conclusions, likely unfavorable, and take action. Hence, my advice that this be a top priority for the developers.