My point is often that those that are pushing for stricter formats have good intentions. Strong arguments, even. However, what is required to grow the adoption of something is different than hardening it. And typically hardening something makes it brittle is some way. (Which is super risky at the adoption stage.)

And, of course, most people don't actually understand why they succeeded at something. It is easy to understand failure from a specific cause. It is much more difficult to understand success from a combination of many causes.