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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 13:10:54 JST Alex Russell

   One of the worst failure modes of web standards is that many folks are easily convinced that we should accept the rate of progress that large, old WGs deign to bless as, somehow, the natural or correct pace – and often cite fig leafs like invited experts to claim that they are in touch. It's tragedy repeated until it comes back as farce.

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 13:10:53 JST Alex Russell

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     That web developers keep falling for the same shit, year after year, is proof that there is such a thing as too much patience. All of the platform's core languages are defended by similar processes, often with no relationship to the technical merits of proposals or the market urgency for solutions. But people keep going to meetings, which looks like doing the job. When they deliver late, they can claim earlier proposals were "bad", safe in the knowledge survivorship bias will cover their tracks

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 13:10:54 JST Alex Russell

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     This process laundering of low ambitions has two goals, and only one beneficiary.

     The goals? To preserve the status of the folks in the room as deliverers of progress in the minds of folks who aren't, and to insulate them from challenge by processes that would falsify their blame to the credulous.

     The beneficiary? The implementer with the least interest in spending money to fix platform problems.