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Same reason with ended up with 15 different standards elsewhere: diversity.

We're in uncharted waters and we have no idea which format will be optimal for one LLM let alone all of them. Given how much prompt engineer has become a thing, finding optimal formats is important.

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I would argue we are in uncharted waters, so we can't even say for certain that it is important to find optimal formats.

Maybe 15 "standards" aren't enough and we will have 1500 that LLMs will happily use and learn

xkcd/927 may loose relevance in the era of LLM

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