Ask HN: Why do standards change (and when)?

I would say AI is on its way to become a standard way of doing things in many verticals and fields.

It's not there yet, it will take some time. We as a society are kind of still figuring the damned thing out. There are some obvious benefits, there's politics, morals, economics involved here... What exactly will become the "standard" no one really knows. Exciting times.

But, let's talk about something else. I work for an API Observability and Governance company. The product aims to make some of the API stuff easier to handle, for the whole team, from devs to management.

That includes API docs. However, there's a wall of "standard" we need to climb, and the wall has a huge grafitty written all over saying "Swagger".

So, I just want understand why? And what would need to happen to make a groundbreaking shift in that area?

If you have more examples of "standards" that would benefit from a shift or disturbance (what marketing calls disruption), feel free to add.