Source Citing Grammar Gripings

Source Citing Grammar Gripings - hooray for alliteration. Why must this be so difficult? Of all the things I could classify as dumb in this world, one would have to be how all these Acronyms (MLA, ALA, WhateverLA) change the rules every year just to exploit all the poor college kids by making them buy new writing books. Who do they think they are? Jeesh.