Having read through the abstract and the first example of the specification I'm highly skeptical that the W3C process worked to produce something that is actual

Having read through the abstract and the first example of the specification I'm highly skeptical that the W3C process worked to produce something that is actually useful, in the sense that it ends up widely used. DID kind of strikes me as ASN.1 "with crypto/distributed ledger" stuff tacked on top of it.