In the beginning there was Chrome and MetaMask.
And the Chrome was proprietary and without respect for privacy; and Web Store malware was upon the face of the everything. And the MetaMask struggled to move upon the face of the tabs munged to work with web3.
So Brendan said, “Let there be an ungoogled-chromium reskin!” And there was an ungoogled-chromium reskin.
And Brendan saw the reskin, that it was good; and Brendan brought the MetaMask to the reskin.
And Brendan called the reskin Brave, and the MetaMask Brave Wallet.

And the browser and the built-in dapp client were the true successor to Mist.