1. There is a cabal of companies painstakingly working together to make the most convoluted software possible from scratch so they can dominate the market.
or
2. A few people threw together a bit of code to attempt to get something working without any deep engineering or systematic view of what they were trying to accomplish, getting something to work well enough that it took off quickly in a time where everyone wants to have tool use on LLMs.
I've been on the internet a long time and number 2 is a common software paradigm on things that are 'somewhat' open and fast moving. Number 1 does happen but it either is started and kept close by a single company, or you have a Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish" which isn't going on here.
2 works when you're making software, but not when you're making a specification.
The entire point of a specification is that it's well thought out. You SHOULD be considering ways it can be misused, vulnerabilities that might sneak into implementations.
there is a 1.5 option: VC-funded company decides what they want to achieve and inexperient engineers come up with a bugged implementation (that still focus on what VC-funded wanted, in this case more LLM calls with bloated context)
