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.

Who cares about the ABI when the current ABI has a bunch of bad issues with it. For any backwards compatibility thing there is always AI that can rewrite old code.