But that would require effort, organising and building!

I come here for the snarky comments and the “walking away feeling good” feeling, not actual action! /s

This post feels like it falls into the XKCD trap of “soon: there are 15 standards”

If you remove POSIX, what will replace it? If the answer is “nothing” then now on earth do you compete with a “build once run 99% everywhere else” mantra?

You’d end up with IE6 and ActiveX all over again, or HFS resource forks