[AaronBallman]

We've started doing some things in this area, but I don't think the committee would abandon legacy code bases entirely. Instead, we try to make a migration path for code bases.

For instance, we added the '_Bool' data type and require you to include <stdbool.h> to spell it 'bool' instead and to get 'true' and 'false' identifiers. This was done to not impact existing code bases that had their own bool/true/false implementation with those spellings. Now that "enough" time has passed for legacy code bases to update, we're looking into making these "first-class" features of the language and not requiring <stdbool.h> to be included to use them. We're doing the same for things like _Static_assert vs static_assert, etc for the same reason.