It has already been deprecated for decades, but I doubt they will ever remove it. Compatibility with millions of lines of pre-existing code is simply more important than the somewhat niche concern that it makes C harder to parse.

And we’re talking about something from the premodern time of C. Changing how declarations are written now is a complete non-starter; there would be absolutely zero appetite for that, and even if the standards committee did it, everyone would just continue using compiler flags for the last version of the standard before the change happened, so compilers and parsers would have to continue supporting it anyway.

> Surely C has deprecated something

Again, deprecated yes, but the only thing I can actually think of them removing outright is the gets function, which had way more potential to cause harm than these parsing issues.

I think you are just massively overestimating the extent to which the C committee is willing to break things. The language is managed and standardized in a totally different way from things like Python.