It's been years since I was involved with the organization side of the Standards Association, but there was a lot of frustration among staff because the vendor

It's been years since I was involved with the organization side of the Standards Association, but there was a lot of frustration among staff because the vendors (and stakeholders in general) often had a vested interest in keeping the process broken. IEEE as a whole had a weird relationship with Standards as well. A somewhat related example is that it took staff years to get permission from all the vendors to release the full MAC address allocation database after agreeing to keep it non-public. In general you can probably assume that people who work for Standards are even grumpier about the whole nightmare than people outside the process. It's sort of a perverse form of regulatory capture where the "agency" is still trying to do the right thing, but they're locked in by their constituency.