I've thought about this quite a bit. Ultimately there's a lot of benefit to a monoculture, but there's also some pretty scary downsides. At the end of the day,

I've thought about this quite a bit. Ultimately there's a lot of benefit to a monoculture, but there's also some pretty scary downsides. At the end of the day, a monoculture is cheap interoperability and a crappy alternative to standardized protocols.