In fairness this is as opposed to Go? Swift? Rust? Java? C#? Then C and C++ are defacto controlled by private companies: Google+Apple do pretty much all the cl

In fairness this is as opposed to Go? Swift? Rust? Java? C#? Then C and C++ are defacto controlled by private companies: Google+Apple do pretty much all the clang development, MS does MSVC - if they choose not to implement a feature that’s approved, or implement one that isn’t, that is the de facto standard. You can argue it would require all three to agree on something, but that’s still essentially making WG21 somewhat irrelevant.