[fancyfredbot]

Commercial enterprises can only support standards if it's commercially viable.

It's commercially beneficial to make the web standard so complex that it's more or less impossible to implement, since it lets you monopolise the browser market. However complexity only protects incumbents if you can persuade enough people to use the overcomplicated bits. If hardly anyone uses it, like xslt, then it's a cost for the incumbent which new entrants might get away without paying. So there's no real upside for Google in supporting it. And you can't expect commercial enterprises to do something without any upside.

[lp0_on_fire]

I expect commercial enterprises not to be allowed to engage in anti-competitive and consumer-hostile behavior. Like it or not and regardless of their contributions to tech/the web Google is notorious for pulling the rug out from under open industry standards only to replace them with their own proprietary or, as you described, "standards" that are so complex it's more or less impossible to implement so you're "forced" to use/buy their product.

[fancyfredbot]

They will be as anti-competitive and as consumer hostile as they can get away with. Adding and removing features from the standard is so ambiguously motivated that I almost can't imagine them being successfully prosecuted for it. In a way it's pretty clever.

[otterley]

Nobody is going to do things you agree with all the time. That doesn't mean everything they do should be condemned by default, without thorough investigation into their motives.