> As the story goes, these guys pushing contracts systematically pushed a broken proposal by dismissing criticism with bureaucratic chicanery such as purposely ignoring feedback and criticism by claiming that if other people voted in favor of their proposal then they shouldn't need to bother with feedback from those who opposed.

From what I've seen of the story, the opposite is true. The people opposing contracts are the ones who have been engaging with bureaucratic chicanery to try to rip it out of the standard. In the discussions within the committee, they've been given every opportunity to make their case and had their arguments heard, even when those arguments failed to persuade anyone and are simply relitigated again and again in subsequent meetings as if they're new. In at least one national body, the anti-contracts people used the bureaucratic process to change the vote of the national body.