> How we got there, I don't care. Well that is a good way of ensuring that the same class of problems will endlessly reappear, while also providing a broken ut

> How we got there, I don't care. Well that is a good way of ensuring that the same class of problems will endlessly reappear, while also providing a broken utilitarian end-justifies-the-means rationale that is certain to be abused. > The standards are important, but they're ultimately there to provide a nice UX and that's it. No, standards are there to make interoperability possible, which overcomes the hazards of market network effect, leveling the field for more competing solutions, thus yielding a better <insert literally anything in the whole world, including UX>.