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@boxy When competing standards fail in the face of preferable competitors, they also become deprecated.

So it's not like it's a permanent state of things.

New standards can be needed, older standards can be deprecated. And then they can be brought back into recommendation when major flaws in the new standards that weren't noticed due to flaws in the evaluation process are noticed.

Or something new incorporating the better parts of both (and a bunch of compatibility stuff) can be made.
@ramsey @boxy Dynamic adaptation can in theory greatly outcompete static preparation in efficiency.

There are certain parameter constraints that must hold true in general or always for that to be the case though. The rate of mutation vs cost of adapting to it at any given time, for instance.

Of course at the moment there is a problem that resource efficiency and sustainability are *not* primary concerns for a lot of standards and participants in their creation, as monetization remains their sole primary concern. That underlies the majority of the inefficiencies and why they're not being corrected.