I mean, there's probably more shipped units of "oddball systems" than there are of Unix-like multi process systems that have to wipe segments like .bss vracuse of their security model. So it's not like it's some pedantic corner case like you're implying.

And there are other parts of the C standard that would just declare 'implementation defined', so the standard doesn't have to say static duration is initialized just because that's what multi process systems do.