That's a remarkable perspective, and one I happen to disagree with. The great thing about standardising elements is that we can standardise behaviour without having to grant every server in the world execute access on clients. HTML can be used simply as a bootloader to start up a JavaScript DOM-manipulator, but it shouldn't be, because it is far more secure and private to read a static web page than it is to execute untrusted code.

Is the living standard aspect of WHATWG dead then?