The primary reason this hasn't happened is that it'd break C++'s
de facto stable ABI (even though officially there's no such thing). For a lot more context, see
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p20... and
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p18....
Spoiler alert: The option described as "the sort of leadership failing that I pray we can avoid" is what ended up happening.