I think, as usual this was the compromise that the committee was able to agree on above all objections. There is stills the possibility that the rules are relax

I think, as usual this was the compromise that the committee was able to agree on above all objections. There is stills the possibility that the rules are relaxed if there is agreement. But somebody has to do the work to push it through standardization. I also thought that the behaviour as standardized was useless, but recently I started writing more minimalist code eschewing constructors where aggregate initialisation would suffice, and I haven't really missed the ability to reorder initializers or skip them.