But isn’t this also the road towards open standards complexity? Going deep into OWL territory, the theoretic foundation of the Semantic Web (“we can map universal meaning”) , or even the trendline of the Solid project to create every more intricate specs to hammer things down. I created a diagram some time ago that I posted several times before:
Arguably AP diverged because most devs wanted to avoid the - perceived or not - complexity of Linked Data, and went with the KISS approach of plain old JSON.
The extension process should be a practical approach that brings the best of both worlds.