Standards can quickly become very political. A good example is UML. In the early days it accommodated everything that was in widespread use at the time, with o

Standards can quickly become very political. A good example is UML. In the early days it accommodated everything that was in widespread use at the time, with only a few visual syntax changes. Since then it has been refactored and also bloated with support for many edge cases. Those who use it, typically only use a small subset.