Interesting, it was a variation of embrace, extend, extinguish, without the extend part.
In a way, I think it happened to the entire internet. Look at browsers today, web development (that one might be controversial, but I think big techs somewhat forced bloated frameworks to be the standard way to create websites), video streaming, etc.
It's all about balance. A few sign posts help people not to get lost, but too much sign posts would make people become disoriented.
Why do I get a bad feeling about it? I hope wikipedia remains the same after that.
Besides... they ask so desperately for donations, so it makes me wonder if the project can be sustainable.
Maybe I'm overthinking stuff, let's see how it goes.
But they still contribute to google's monopoly over web standards.