QUIC has been an IETF draft for years and they were definitely accepting contributions and feedback, and a lot of efforts were not driven by Google at all. As

QUIC has been an IETF draft for years and they were definitely accepting contributions and feedback, and a lot of efforts were not driven by Google at all. As far as orthogonality goes, it seems to be pretty orthogonal to different kind of uses, I'm not sure why you're saying it's not. On simplicity it's definitely not simple, but given the problems it is trying to solve it's probably as simple as it could be.