Well, there's this list Stroustrup offers, of systems in C++ that he would reject: [0]

[0] https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p0977r0...

One vote, C++ isn't a BDFL driven language.

Also WG14 famously killed Dennis Ritchie proposal to add fat pointers to C.

Language authors only have symbolic value once they relish control to a standards body.