> The attitude "we put paper standards" and the community should step in for the implementations and tooling

Khronos is a consortium financed by its members, who either implement the standards on their own hardware or otherwise depend on the ecosystem around them. For example, competing GPU vendors typically implement the standards in parallel with the committee meetings. The very people who represent their company in Khronos are typically leads of the teams who implement the standards.

Source: used to represent my employers at Khronos. It was a difficult, thankless job, that required almost as much diplomacy as technical expertise.