[bluGill]

It is and must be more difficult to make changes than start something new. When one person alone starts something new it is easy to make choices to a vision. When something is popular you cannot easily make changes that all will agree on.

C++ has painful experience on what happens when you don't carefully consider all proposed changes and so miss something. Export is an obvious example, but there are others that seemed good until painful experience later showed why not. Templates would look very different if they knew then what people would do with them.