Those standards are adopted because they work. And they work because someone poured in tons of RnD to make them work. And those people are incentivised to do th

Those standards are adopted because they work. And they work because someone poured in tons of RnD to make them work. And those people are incentivised to do the RnD because they get paid (patents). Nowadays nobody will want to work on foundational open source work for free only to enrich everyone else that builds on top of it.