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Unluckily, yes.
There are only 3 independent browser engines left: Firefox, Chromium and Safari. And Chromium derives from Safari, so the only true alternative is Firefox.
Gecko, blink and webkit
There is also a developing project Ladybird (with homebrew libweb), although it is far from production-ready.
Yes, of course there are more projects. KHTML itself was a different engine (which Apple took, modified and re-released with the name of Safari). I just mentioned the only three "complete" and production-ready engines.
Eh, Chromium's Blink and Safari's WebKit diverged quite some time ago, I think it's fair to consider them separate engines at this point.
There is also Goanna / Pale Moon: https://www.palemoon.org/