[ebiester]

I think what's interesting here is that the author is trying to build a foundational component upon which other developers can leverage. The author is trying to build something that other GUIs will want to integrate (e.g. Druid and Xilem).

And I think it's fair for someone to put together a proof of concept as a research proposal. They may not make it far in and of itself, but it may become an inspiration for someone else.

[PoignardAzur]

I think there's good hope for that approach too.

GUI crate maintainers have expressed interest in AccessKit; so far three crates have started using it (egui, rui, iced in a PR).

This suggests to me that these maintainers are interested in the idea of pooling work and that they're willing to use other people's work instead of NIH-ing their own library. (Though that doesn't mean Masonry is what anybody will settle on.)