Comment by jerf

You seem to be assuming that I would argue against removing webusb. If it went through the same process and the system as a whole reached the same conclusion, I wouldn't fight it too hard personally.

There's probably half-a-dozen other things that could stand serious thought about removal.

There is one major difference though, which is that if you remove webusb, the functionality is just gone, whereas XSLT can be done through Javascript/WebASM just fine.

Document templating is obviously not a niche case. That's why we've got so many hundreds of them. We're not lacking in solutions for document templating, we're drowning in them. If XSLT stands out in its niche, it is as being a particularly bad choice, which is why nobody (to that first approximation we've all heard so much about) uses it.