Whenever I see people complain about this, it always seems to be specs. that aren’t on the standards track. Which basically means that it’s a spec. that Google wrote and both Mozilla and Apple rejected.

It takes only two independent implementations to make something a standard. If it’s not on the standards track, it means Google couldn’t convince anybody else to implement it.

This is not Apple throwing up objections. This is Google trying to push bad stuff unilaterally and nobody else going along with it.