August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4

August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563

Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.