I mean, it’s not like AT(X) started out as a standard either. It evolved out of a proprietary but reliable design. Realistically that’s how a laptop standard w

I mean, it’s not like AT(X) started out as a standard either. It evolved out of a proprietary but reliable design. Realistically that’s how a laptop standard will have evolve into being, if a consortium got together to try to make one out of thin air it would almost certainly be a disaster. So at this point, imo, framework’s motherboard is the eigenstandard: either it will continue to exist long enough to attract efforts to build alternative hardware around (as the pi sort of has for tiny form factor sbcs), or it will fizzle out and we’ll be back to square one. But may as well be optimistic and assume it’s the beginning of “atx for laptops” the same way the ibm pc/at was until proven otherwise. Challenges to that place need to provide more, not less, compelling reasons to believe in them imo.