It was a pretty smart decision by gorhill to make a different content blocker for manifest V3 compliance rather than having ublock origin have wildly different capabilities depending on the browser it's installed in.

No its not. uBO Lite was trained wrong, as a joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d696t3yALAY [Kung Pow - Wimp Lo]

Manifest V3 neuters blockers to the point they stop performing their intended function.