That's actually the problem compared to a conservstive language standard committe as in C (WG14). WG21 (C++) are the yea sayers, WG14 (C) the no sayers. C++ moves much too fast to please anyone. C is a glacier, and if they adopt something it's a mistake, or just bikeshedding.

ABI's have their own committee, the gABI. This is frozen.