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It's an industry standard designed at closed door meetings where you have to pay to get in and pay to read the spec.

It benefits all of the participants to build a big, deep moat where the paying participants have the expertise.

This is how, by the way, warts like this occur: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17402274

Somehow you'd think it would also benefit participants if it was also reliable and fulfilled end user's requirements. It is not theoretically impossible to have wireless headphones with low enough latency for gaming.

It's true that only paying companies (associate membership or higher) can participate in working groups and contribute to the specifications, but once a specifications has been adopted it becomes public.

All of the adopted core specifications, profile specifications, and errata documents are public: https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/

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