While I strongly doubt that, I'll still add the end of the joke:
… and Mitchell Baker will fire all of Mozilla's engine developers and use the money saved by that to give herself another multi-million dollar salary raise.
Gecko engine looks pretty healthy to me overall. And WebGPU in particular is the least of a concern, given that Firefox's implementation is based on wgpu [1], which has great community and a lot of users within and outside of Rust ecosystem. I'm confident Firefox can ship it soon (tm).