I agree that the title is clickbaity -- I expected something much worse and more intentional than some obscure integration bug between Asus routers' DHCP server and proxy-auto-discovery.
Why our industry typically fails to agree to formal standards is that it takes time and effort to agree upon standards. The W3C is a good example: browser vendors move faster than the W3C could keep up with, so they decided to bypass them.
I don't fully share your negativism towards this: the ability to innovate quickly is important, and even when things get fully standardized, there is no guarantee that every vendor implements them correctly (again, see HTML and just how different things can behave with different browser vendors that all use the same standard).
Why our industry typically fails to agree to formal standards is that it takes time and effort to agree upon standards. The W3C is a good example: browser vendors move faster than the W3C could keep up with, so they decided to bypass them.
I don't fully share your negativism towards this: the ability to innovate quickly is important, and even when things get fully standardized, there is no guarantee that every vendor implements them correctly (again, see HTML and just how different things can behave with different browser vendors that all use the same standard).