The "they" that "gave up" is a different group of people than the "they" who thought it was evil, by the way. The current group working on the contemporary HTM

The "they" that "gave up" is a different group of people than the "they" who thought it was evil, by the way. The current group working on the contemporary HTML living standard just describes reality, by and large, so there was never really any doubt that "embed" would be part of the standard when we started back in 2004.