Yes and no. I agree that standards make things easier, but standards probably make it harder or at least not easier to really come to an EOL for dated technolog

Yes and no. I agree that standards make things easier, but standards probably make it harder or at least not easier to really come to an EOL for dated technology. See how browsers still have to support non CSS styling and similar. What I meant with standards making it harder to EOL technologies is that a standard leads to more implementations, which is a good thing, but certainly not for EOLing a technology.