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> Why aren't we using a bit more modern techniques now, ...

because those in power don't care, this problem doesn't really affect them, they don't know about potential solutions (too old and/or not programmers), they are afraid of structural change anyhow, etc, etc.

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Your response seems to have a political bent to it, though I could be presuming too much. Assuming you intended for it that way: how does that explain RFCs seemingly behaving the same way? That's about as techie as you can get!

but RFCs are written using "git".

https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-...

sure, maybe IETF uses their homegrown version, but - for example - TC39 uses GitHub https://github.com/tc39/ (here are the proposals for JS https://github.com/tc39/proposals ), whatWG also uses GH https://github.com/whatwg/html

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