Obviously. Buе this principle should not be followed fanatically. In the real world there are cases when a new standard can be introduced for good and take over. You just have to thing twice before inventing a wheel - to make sure it's going to be sooooo much better that it's worth it.

In this actual situation we have ther isn't going to be "14 standards" because there is no standard (for packages of this kind) so far, only a number of candidates. The first one to be good enough will become the first standard.