I noticed that opera is always one version behind chromium. for example, when chrome update to 128, opera will update to chromium 127. it's almost always one version behind.

but other major chromium-based browsers almost get update just within two days after chrome.

so maybe opera can just skip one chromium version to keep up? i don't know your internal development schedule, it's just my imagination. it is necessary to keep up with chromium for security, features and performance.