That's part of what's frustrating me about this! Usually non-profit projects/protocols are extensible, like the web and the Internet. This, despite the fact that for-profit corps try to appropriate/destroy the free/extensible platforms just like Microsoft/AOL tried with the Internet in the 90s.

So here, we end up in a situation that because silicon valley moguls exploited an extensible protocol (by hijacking the standardizing committee to their profit) we adopt a self-defense reflex of making everything minimalist to reduce the attack surface.

I'm interested in low-tech/ecology in general. For me, the equivalent in the physical world would be if you're not happy with a house using too much resources/energy so you decide to live without walls or floor, with a simple ceiling over the head. Sure it does the job of protecting you from rainfall, but does it fit all the other functionalities we expect from a home? I'm much more interested in a clay-based (or other local materials) housing, personally.