I spent years authoring plugins. Anybody who cares about end-use security should want plugins out as quickly and completely as possible. They literally ran in

I spent years authoring plugins. Anybody who cares about end-use security should want plugins out as quickly and completely as possible. They literally ran in the same process as the browser. Full access to the memory itself. No security at all, and many of them were closed source. The DRM standard was a strict improvement over the status quo.