Do they do any surveys on what percentage of the programmer population actually gives a damn about using C++ in new projects, what % plans to make their existing codebase even shittier (or complicated or subjectively beautiful or what have you) by using even more C++ features?

Like my question is who are these standards targeted to? How many of those people exist?

They should stop this nonsense by having one giant meeting and adding everybody's ideas to the standard. Then take a giant sigh and call it C++Done.

Edit: to the -I'm sure respectably intelligent- people with temporary lapses of objectivity that are downvoting without comments - HN is not for passive downvoting of things you don't like, it's for discussing why you disagree.