IEEE has gotten a bunch of things wrong, but they have gotten a bunch of things right as well. How many other vendor-agnostic technologies are there that work as well as Wifi? For the most part my wifi-enabled device will work with any device made by any manufacturer, from the high end ones down to the cheapest junk. That level of compatibility is rare in a standard in which participation is entirely voluntary.<p>I think the IEEE struck a balance between simplicity and ease of implementation and features. I don&#x27;t think the goal was ever to design a standard that could handle thousands of endpoints on commodity hardware.<p>For what it is, wifi works great. It falls apart when you try to make it do what it wasn&#x27;t designed to do. There have been missteps along the way, but overall I think the good outweighs the bad.<p>Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.