In many of those cases it would be better to improve adoption of one of the existing standards though. When the EU decided all mobile devices should be chargeable with micro-usb it was known that was not the best port ever. But having everything use the same charger was great and it made it easier to force everyone to update new devices to usb-c.

Holy shit these people do exist and they literally cite this xkcd, drives me nuts

Honestly in this day and age I expected it to be the torment nexus tweet.

Im gonna say that a proposed universal standard should be compliant with some of the other existing standards. That way standard integrated into existing code infrastructure