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I've been waiting for a sign to switch and I think this is it. A few questions though.
I can't answer any of these. I don't have the knowledge. I am not using Firefox on mobile, only on desktop. (opera mobile user)
However what I can say is, you need to make compromises on some of your convenience to free yourself from a user hostile company's software, or forks of it which strongholds you to their whims. Silicon Valley is trying to profit against your best interests.
Well I was planning to switch anyway for the reasons you just explained, so further moral rhetoric is wasted on me. I'm only asking those who do have knowledge in order to help ease the transition.
I haven't used Chrome's reading list feature, since I don't use chrome, but they are competing "read it later" product, so should function vaguely similarly.
Unfortunately I think your impression of Pocket is basically correct, it hasn't received any meaningful updates since Mozilla bought it, and is very underwhelming product, it's still baffling for example that Pocket (at least as a browser plugin) uses a different (and generally worse) reading view from the Firefox "reading mode."
That being said I haven't found any "read it later" products I've actually liked using... (I switched to Wallabag after I quit using Pocket, but have used readability, instapaper, and the reading list feature of "The Old Reader"), so I just quit using the product category entirely, my replacement is "send to device" feature of Firefox so I can find articles on one device and send them to another to either view on a bigger screen, or a mobile screen. (I have a desktop, laptop, tablet and a phone... so this is very useful)
I think it does support tab groups. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-tabs-firefox-android
Pocket is kind of like Reading list. It also kinda sucks for the reasons you mention. Speaking personally, I use Wallabag for that instead.
Houdini is a web API that Firefox has not implemented yet, hence the existence of such a website. I think I shouldn't have asked about it here, but I'm still curious about it.