Yes, v1 often has immense inertia. This is true, but it will actually not make you any better at predicting the future, and as i said elsewhere, we are extreme

Yes, v1 often has immense inertia. This is true, but it will actually not make you any better at predicting the future, and as i said elsewhere, we are extremely bad at that already. Step into the shoes of a developer 10 years ago, and look the world now. Look ohw much is changed in a way that would affect this stuff. Trying to have successfully anticipated it simply won't work. Instead, you build standards to be easy to transition from/to. That is what enables you to upgrade standards and get reasonable adoption of new versions. While painful, that is the only path that ever works.