I have no personal interest in whether XSLT is supported in browsers. I've never once used it as a developer, but it doesn't offend my sensibilities to keep it

I have no personal interest in whether XSLT is supported in browsers. I've never once used it as a developer, but it doesn't offend my sensibilities to keep it around. To me, finding out that XSLT may be removed from the standard was like finding out that Fortran was being removed: huh, that was in there? But as a meta comment, I'm surprised at the number of strong emotions on either side of this. I refused to believe that so many people knew or cared that XSLT was an existing feature in browsers before this all came up. And the hyperbole behind "this destroys the open web" blow my mind. I've been writing HTML since the mid 90s, and although I've known what XSLT is all along, I've never been in the room with anyone who claimed that they used it for any reason whatsoever. Regardless of what happens, this is not the death of the open web. I have no doubt that certain people depend on having it in browsers, but there's no way it's required by more than a tiny portion of websites. Yes, this will be inconvenient and possibly expensive for those sites, and I am sympathetic to them. But the web? It's gonna be just fine without it, should that come to pass.