> "industry standards" common in, say, electrical engineering and other disciplines are sorely lacking here
I think this misses the rather crucial fact that nobody can agree on a standard because nobody has the first idea what they're doing. I'm pretty sure there were very much fewer electrical engineering standards while it was all being first mass deployed, and after dozens to hundreds of fires and electrocutions people got an idea of what works and what doesn't.
You might debate here and say that some people did/do know what they are doing, but I posit that large scale deployment like this is very different to their toy model/prototypes/specific circumstances/rely on them being unnaturally smart, and learnings from one don't often translate to the general case
Regulations don't have to be written in blood, but usually are
I think this misses the rather crucial fact that nobody can agree on a standard because nobody has the first idea what they're doing. I'm pretty sure there were very much fewer electrical engineering standards while it was all being first mass deployed, and after dozens to hundreds of fires and electrocutions people got an idea of what works and what doesn't.
You might debate here and say that some people did/do know what they are doing, but I posit that large scale deployment like this is very different to their toy model/prototypes/specific circumstances/rely on them being unnaturally smart, and learnings from one don't often translate to the general case
Regulations don't have to be written in blood, but usually are