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There’s nothing wrong at all with adding features as long as more than one browser/engine actually adopts them.



There’s an argument to be made that a high pace of new feature additions effectively functions as a moat that ensures that new competitive web engines cannot be developed as a result of not being able to ever catch up.


Exactly: The part after "as long as" is both critical and hard to ensure.




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