Yes? Instead, we have committee declaring large bodies of existing code invalid and non-conformant, because it does not fit their spherical cow C++. You would think, with amount of no-exceptions and no-rtti code out there, and feature being present in most compilers for decades, they would take a hint and reflect actual usage in their standard? No, why would they. Any C++ that has no exceptions, rtti or std:: namespace is invalid. Not even against guidelines.