This is absolutely a colossal anti-trust violation, doing colossal harm to society at large, keeping the web from being viable again and again, with it taking years to support WebRTC, years to supoprt ServiceWorkers, years to support every single thing, and the gap seemingly growing. This is a huge abuse of colossal market position, restricting the internet itself from competing with a closed platform, purely because it benefits Apple not to allow the situation to be fixed.
Their warchest is huge, they could participate in calls to implement, could ship features, but they dont. Even if they did, I would still prefer users not to be locked in to a monoculture, to have to use a specific browser.
This rhetoric that the standards bodies have been usurped is insanity, is bedlam. Show some evidence, make a case. No one does. This age keeps being swept by cheap, lying, low-grade dismissive politicians & schucksters selling popularist rage, and this post is some low quality grade-A unsupported zeal-filled techie-politics rage. It's not true. Standards bodies are alive and well. TAG is still elected, of good healthy techie stock, who review each of the various efforts & emphasize the better critiques & raise their own.
The only selling out that's happened is that the ad-industry keeps Google from doing good things, and sells to sow dissent that someone is trying to ratchet up privacy, which Google has been slowly doing (yes to the benefit of their search engine, but first party traffic ought to have privileges over third party traffic).
Standards work is hard as heck. There is not enough participation, there are not enough players funding standards work. But I don't see people being blocked, people being cut out from the work. I see Apple standing aside usually & silently refusing the calls to implement. I see not enough people participating. But chalking this up to conspiracy & the web being sold out? Please. These techies care. They want a better web, genuinely. They are trying, really hard. Everything happens in the open, in documented meetings. Trying to ascribe conspiracy & great machinations to this is sickening, is revolting disinformation. Do not market yourself on selling distrust & doubt in the world; do ally yourself with those who do foment & tear down & sow doubts (especially so out of hand, so very lacking a case).