They do also deprecate and remove stuff too, and not all new versions are large (C++14 was very small). So, sure, they found a bunch of new stuff to add, but th

They do also deprecate and remove stuff too, and not all new versions are large (C++14 was very small). So, sure, they found a bunch of new stuff to add, but the frequency and size of updates does seem to depend on how much stuff is proposed that they deem useful enough to add. Note that in the time C++ had 5 updates, Python has had 10 releases and Java has had 14!