>doesn't seem like a fair description
https://webmonetization.org/ links to Interledger and Gatehub. Interledger site links to Coil, Puma browser and some noname charity. "Chairperson of the Interledger Foundation, Founder and CEO of Coil". Same guy is the founder of the Puma browser. Previously there were links to Uphold as well, no idea why they removed them. Gatehub = Ripple. And finally, Interledger was invented by Ripple.
They are trying to make it look like a movement, but in reality it is a small group of companies and organizations used as a front for Ripple.
>The whole point of the standard is that anyone can be an API provider.
No one wants to. It's like Microsoft created a standard and the only available API provider is Azure.