You know, I'm starting to feel that there is no pleasing everyone. When a company decides to do a design without consulting a committee, people get all upset that they broke the standardization process. But when a feature does go through the process, people will complain about how it was designed and then blame it for being designed by a committee. What's the solution?

Well, the problem is that CSS is a monolithic mess at this point, like many other standards... If it was made of a selection of loosely-coupled parts, everyone would be fine with a strong guiding individual streamlining each individual part, and if you don't like part of the design you can just use another solution. Eventually CSS will be replaced by something like this (but it will take many more years, and it will require some rethinking about web code versioning, sandboxing, how low level web browser reflow algos work, etc.)