FWIW, you're saying this to an ex-Apple person who has actually been in the room with people from Apple when talking about standards, both internally and during standards committee discussions and meetings.
To be fair to them, I think a very meaningful part of that comes from upper management and is not necessarily the fault of the representative in the room and multiple people have gone out of their way to make that point to me explicitly and I think it’s worth repeating here.
But there is absolutely 100% a huge culture problem inside of Apple on this specific topic.
https://infrequently.org/2023/02/safari-16-4-is-an-admission...
And it was only this year that I wrote up the broader thesis:
https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-i...
Most of my current and former colleagues wouldn't dare for (legitimate) fear of reprisal in the form of even worse blockage in important design areas.
The links proved here are incredibly damning and are exactly the kind of shit I’ve heard from many different people over many years at this point.
Don’t gaslight me and others and tell me there isn’t a problem here when there clearly is.