Comment by Shorel

> I would blame the adoption of containerization for the lack of interest in XML standards, but by the time containerization happened, XML had been all but abandoned.

Whoa, that doesn't have anything to do with the dislike for XML. We dislike XML because its use is heavily correlated with IBM java tech stack, and that is a complete disaster in usability and project management.

IBM WebSphere with all its fragile XML configuration files, which can't be edited by hand because everything breaks if you try, are my reason to avoid XML since, and if I ever have to choose, I will choose against XML.

Containerisation became a normal practice about a decade after I and the other developers I know, started to avoid XML.