How is the #Firefox team so incredibly ignorant of the use case of blocking domains using the local /etc/hosts file?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-disable-dns-over-https

Projects like Pi-Hole must now implement their suggested solution to be useful on Firefox. The /etc/hosts file is totally ignored.

/rant starts

And there's this:
> Resolve the “safe-search” variants of google.com and youtube.com to determine if the network redirects to them

Yeah, because mozilla.org and firefox.com are not valid enough domain names!