As long as your definition of kashrus is "standards", you will fail to understand.
I would describe this post, but you wouldn't understand what condescending means, would you?

My entire childhood was hearing my father answer shaalos of kashrus from Jews across the entire spectrum of Jewish observance (literally). So yeah, maybe hearing him enthusuastically tell one person, "enjoy it! it's 100% ok" and then 5 minutes later tell someone else the exact same product is problematic somehow colored my view of kashrus as "standards" and I fail to appreciate its true meaning. OTOH, maybe I do have a bit of an understanding of what kashrus is and the vast spectrum of opinions that there are, as well as the vast amount of ignorance, allbeit well intentioned? Perhaps I'm not coming at this discussion from a narrow view of people trying to outchumrah each other?
For the purposes of discussion, things need to be distilled or classified. The only way you can have any sort of neemanus is with highly systemized procedures and, well, standards, as explained above eloquently by
@moko.