It's a consortium, that is, it exists to represent the interests of corporate members. It's actually set up that way partly because his stupid toy hypermedia system made a lot of people very rich and Sir Tim would like some of that money.

Now, it should not come as an enormous surprise that most of the W3C's corporate members do not have your individual interests close to their hearts. And so you can't really expect them to consistently vote for things that help you and hurt them.

If you would like to work on technology standardisation but you aren't a corporation find an IETF Working Group that's doing something interesting to you and pitch in. Unlike the W3C the IETF isn't a membership organisation. Indeed it arguably isn't an organisation at all which makes it pretty unique among Standards Development Organisations...