Except that we got screen recording and all that, so it is seems very much possible. > any new standard that appears would be just another competing standard

Except that we got screen recording and all that, so it is seems very much possible. > any new standard that appears would be just another competing standard That seems to contradict what you just argued. Adding a new standard is hard and needs buy-in from at least one of gnome/kde/wlroots. So instead of "there are now 15 standards" you have a much more pressure to agree on just one.