This feels a little defensive, but also pretty out of line with the philosophy of the C++ standards committee. The committee has been aggressively stapling every new leg they could find to that dog for decades. They just chose not to staple this particular leg on until now.
Your comment doesn't bear any resemblance with reality. C++ started with a spartan standard library and only recently did it standardized it's file system API.
Compare that with what, say, POCO already offers. Or Boost. Or java/C#/Python/etc.
What exactly led you to believe that absurdity?
The fact that the standards committee simply chose to just add every feature every other language has.
Again, this take is outright wrong and totally clueless. I mean, the summary of each change introduced by any of the C++ standards is freely available. C++20's most compelling features beyond concepts and modules were small improvements over existing features like lambda captures and template resolutions, or new atributes.
What compells you to make such nonsensical claims?
Literally all the additions between C++03 and C++20.
Here's a small list since you'd rather attack me than review the changelogs, it seems.
- range-based for loops.
- enum class.
- digit separators and binary literals.
- consteval/constexpr/constinit.
- std::move
- std::forward
- std::variant based mock pattern matching.
- lambdas.
- structured binding declarations.
- an ABI for garbage collection.
- coroutines.
- concepts.
C++20 even added a three-way comparison operator.
This is just a random selection.