From what I understand it is at least unhooked from Mozilla and in competition with them. So both of those are a plus in my book. And alone it might not be as safe as Brave, but... Add NoScript and Ghostery to it and it is even more secure that Brave. They stop EVERYTHING by default. You have to turn things on sometimes to see them, but only what you need to use the site and the other 50 hidden scripts remain blocked.
I just tried to sign into my youtube account using brave, in order to start removing my account with them, and get links to sites with info i need,, and was informed that I couldn’t because brave isn’t a secure browser lol. Wonder what youtube fears fromthe brave browser?