Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.
Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:
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Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
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Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance
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Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
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Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
I mean, this doesn’t really change anything from a practical perspective. It just highlights that the verbage in the press release was alarmist.
It’s still a security concern that most users will be unaware of.