Looking elsewhere.

the web industry was built on the skill, care and labour of people and what makes it great is those people. In the face of mass layoffs, it is no longer enough to show up and sweat the details of your own work. It's the time to champion each other.

I’ll champion Robb Owen right here by linking to his post. It’s a good ’un. He didn’t get paid to write it, and AI didn’t write it for him. He wrote and shared it freely so we can all be a part of this shared craft we call web design.

Standards are a part of that shared craft. They serve as:

a peer-reviewed baseline against which you can determine the quality of your work, especially when the people who use your works may depend on them.

Craft is lost when we become fast fashion:

Chasing trends and profits, cutting corners and undermining skilled workforces whilst providing ill-fitting, broken products with no regard for longevity; the modern software world sounds a whole lot like fast-fashion.

Love this:

much in the same way that artisan-tailors and farm-to-table dining continue to work separately from the exploitative worlds of fast-fashion and fast-food, I have to believe that there can be another place—another market—for those of us who still care about the people and the craft. Not really a hard-reset, but a parallel fork of the industry that does right by its users and by the people working in it.