No, it is just respect for backwards compatibility. Though, what might be nice is a shortcut or set of shortcuts for various recommendations e.g. -fopenssf-rec

No, it is just respect for backwards compatibility. Though, what might be nice is a shortcut or set of shortcuts for various recommendations e.g. -fopenssf-recommendation or something (and then you can override the parts you don't want afterwards). You could call it -fsafer but that might be too complicated to get everyone to agree on what it means...