Moreover, the criticism by Thompson and Torvalds refers to the use of C++ as a systems programming language. The language proved itself very efficient for application programming, including the browsers everybody is using.
He is completely wrong, because his comments reveals a complete lack of understanding how ISO works, or worse, he does understand it and is doing a malicious comment to transmit his biased opinion.
Bjarne has the vote of one person, it doesn't matter how much he yells, screams, slashes the whip down the members back.
It is one single vote, and above all, unless he has some dark magic powers, he cannot multiply himself to attend all voting sessions.
Garbage collection isn't in the language though some people wanted it. So it isn't a union of everything.
However, since no one has made any use of it, and existing C++ GC's follow other schemes (Unreal, C++/ClI,...), there is a ISO C++23 proposal to remove it from the standard.