Merging PRs into the NIPs requires implementations. There’s a PR with the switch that’s been waiting for two months for implementations to be able to merge The NIPs repo is DESCRIPTIVE.
I thought the point of the post you're replying to was that if the first devs on the standard just do whatever they want instead of adhering to the standard then that's not good for decentralization which requires growth with more devs being able to join in freely