Technical standards in Bitcoin are just so broken

We start off with a great well specified standard, then everyone has to make a tiny little tweak which just break compatibility with everyone else

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Can you give some examples? My take is that we tend to stick to standards that are now understood to be suboptimal, like BIP33/BIP39, in order to preserve interoperability.

I was referring more to small differences in technical standards especially PSBT and descriptors https://x.com/_benkaufman/status/1877743413606437283?s=46&t=gDN80H7X8cKaLPv_m770rg