As it is evidenced in the comments under the announcement, many of us are disappointed about this change. We have started an open source project with a crowdfunding campaign to reimplement the classic Linode Manager: https://www.patreon.com/linodeclassic

Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that at least one of us uses Android, and at least one of us is non-technical.

If one of you can setup an IRC server, the non-technical people could use Android IRC clients.

Since more than a decade after its initial release and well into the JavaScript revolution that made it obsolete in the browser.

Flash was what made Java obsolete on the browser, and both of them will take JavaScript crown thanks to WebAssembly + WebGL.

What organisations should control a standard if not those that develop implementations?

The point is that WebAssembly isn't something independent of JavaScript masters control as the OP is portraying.

It’s a desktop application that can open a WebAssembly module file and display its structure and content.