A long overdue outcome of this new W3C disaster is the realization that the consumer or the general public doesn't sit at the table when it comes to shape the Web's destiny.
Self-proclaimed "standard bodies" W3C and WHATWG have failed to address the Web's rampant problems: privacy enforcement standards (or lack thereof), and oligopolistic or even monopolistic concentration of large parts of the web infrastructure in the hands of Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, and very few others, with a lack of incentive to do something about it because of W3C's and WHATWG's financial dependency on the very parties having no interest in changing the status quo.
What W3C and WHATWG do have delivered instead: DRM, and privacy-invading de-facto requirement of JavaScript for even the simplest of interactivity features, and WASM (even more privacy-invading, procedural features, from the guys that brought you JavaScript).
Self-proclaimed "standard bodies" W3C and WHATWG have failed to address the Web's rampant problems: privacy enforcement standards (or lack thereof), and oligopolistic or even monopolistic concentration of large parts of the web infrastructure in the hands of Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, and very few others, with a lack of incentive to do something about it because of W3C's and WHATWG's financial dependency on the very parties having no interest in changing the status quo.
What W3C and WHATWG do have delivered instead: DRM, and privacy-invading de-facto requirement of JavaScript for even the simplest of interactivity features, and WASM (even more privacy-invading, procedural features, from the guys that brought you JavaScript).