I think the problem is more or less that we're at a breaking point where it's getting quite obvious that we should move away from higher-up standards. The brows

I think the problem is more or less that we're at a breaking point where it's getting quite obvious that we should move away from higher-up standards. The browser should worry about low-level interfaces only, high level abstractions should never be cast in any standard and that is exactly what the extensible web manifesto said. WC break this in half again and all of the sudden they're again trying to shovel more UI stuff into the dom. What they're trying to fix hasn't been a problem for years. Their entire spec was thought out in a meeting room maybe 10 years ago, but almost nothing of it has relevance today. It would simply make it harder again and block applications from leaving the browser behind.