They're excited about putting the spec behind a notoriously closed paywall??

Us older nerds will remember how Microsoft corrupted the entire ISO standardization process to ram down the Office Open XML (.docx/.xlsx/etc) unto the world.

The original Office ISO standard was 6000+ pages and basically declared unreproducible outside of Microsoft themselves.

There is an entire Wikipedia article dedicated to the kafkaesque byzantine nightmare that was that standardization. [0]

ISO def lacks luster, and maybe even relevance.

[O] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...