Why does this have to be part of the standard library? Isn't that the whole point of Boost, that one is not limited to what's in std?
For me it mostly looks like a reject pile for a stdlib that I must also reject most of the time.
The alignment of incentives between these library authors and people that use C++ for high performance applications is just off.
It’s also the opposite: a place where possible candidates for the standard get tried out first.
But like you, I rarely use it.