It's hard to implement in a way that makes sense in the constraints of the world as it is (people asking for ANY when they have some meaning in mind other than

It's hard to implement in a way that makes sense in the constraints of the world as it is (people asking for ANY when they have some meaning in mind other than the nonsensical specs) and especially in a way that doesn't enable DNS reflection attacks. In an ideal world, sure, you could enable ANY provided nobody either good or evil ever used it. And in fact Cloudflare says they did previously implement it just fine, by littering if statements everywhere.