I'm not at all suggesting move fast and break things.
Yes, things stay for decades. So don't standardize something when you have literally no idea what good looks like.
There is a limit to anticipation. Trying to guess what the world will look like 10 years from now is dumb. Nobody does it well.
So just because v1 will have inertia doesn't mean you will actually predict the future more successfully.
Instead, you have to figure out how you deal with that inertia.
In practice, the reason things have tremendous intertia is because they are often not built to be migrated from or to in a relatively seamless way.
Those standards that allow for easy migration tend to see much faster adoption of new versions.
Those that don't, the old standards linger even longer.
Yes, things stay for decades. So don't standardize something when you have literally no idea what good looks like.
There is a limit to anticipation. Trying to guess what the world will look like 10 years from now is dumb. Nobody does it well.
So just because v1 will have inertia doesn't mean you will actually predict the future more successfully. Instead, you have to figure out how you deal with that inertia.
In practice, the reason things have tremendous intertia is because they are often not built to be migrated from or to in a relatively seamless way.
Those standards that allow for easy migration tend to see much faster adoption of new versions.
Those that don't, the old standards linger even longer.