#IETF RFC 9518 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
> "The extreme flexibility of #SOAP and its failure to provide significant standalone value allowed vendors to require use of their preferred extensions, favoring those who had more market power. Therefore, standards efforts should focus on providing concrete utility to the majority of their users as published, rather than being a "framework" where interoperability is not immediately available."
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#name-consider-extensibility-care