Standardizing too early can suck in various ways. Standardizing too late, on the other hand, leads to something like what we see in the JavaScript ecosystem, where still nobody knows how to do modules properly. Or classes. Because, at least, if TMTOWTDI then things by definition are likely to have interop problems. I guess I prefer the C#, Scala, Swift (?!?!) etc. style of having good versioning plus the willpower to deprecate.