At this point it is just a mechanism for oligopolists to collude with each other to maintain their dominant market positions.
It is funny to watch how something like Web Crypto takes years to implement, even though the technology is ancient, but if Google wants a new feature to spy on users it will be released next week.
This.
With all due respect to the great vision of Tim Berners-Lee, as well as his historical achievements:
The W3C has turned into an anti-pattern of what to expect from a standardization organisation. In some sense, the W3C standards are the opposite of the RFCs by the IETF.
(and ISO is somewhere in between - they do produce over-engineered crap, but their signal-to-noise ratio is still tolerable, even though it hurts)
sorry to burst the bubble here but..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...
Well, I did not intend to say IETF does everything right, but their signal-to-noise ratio is better by orders of magnitude.
Also, I'm under the impression that IETF learned from that utter failure and took measures to prevent similar mistakes in the future (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I did not observe that W3C actually learned anything from their mistakes, but produced less and less useful things over time (again, please correct me if I'm wrong).