[anaganisk]

Many Googlers here, hope they are more vocal when Google comes up with BS. Rather than when they post a positive blog post.

[shadowgovt]

In general, Googlers tend to be in favor of initiatives like this.

You have to remember, from their point of view they are writing the web software and when a user agent is non-compliant, it gets in their way. UAs with weird quirks translate to impossible-to-reproduce bugs, so the default bias is in favor of standardization and regularity.