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Although it's a fair point that a protocol tends to ossify around a lowest-common denominator system that is stagnant, this doesn't prevent individual clients from advancing.
Also, clients can support new protocols as they arise.
The most important point is still that this avoids getting trapped by a monopoly. ISTM that any technical agility that closed silos might provide has to be weighed against that social benefit.