One reason is that there are projects&#x2F;situations where language stability can outweight the benefits of language evolution. While this isn&#x27;t the coolest view out there, the fact the the ANSI standard didn&#x27;t need to be revised since 2004 can actually be a feature, not a bug. For an extreme example of my point, look at the state of the front-end JavaScript frameworks in the last couple of years.