The W3C will ultimately do what is in its members' best interests: it's an industry consortium. Its members are whoever paid the membership fee. There are ple

The W3C will ultimately do what is in its members' best interests: it's an industry consortium. Its members are whoever paid the membership fee. There are plenty of instances of the W3C doing things that its members asked for that were either irrelevant to the web or detrimental to it, because there is no "W3C" per se when it comes to getting stuff done, just the set of members.