[kllrnohj]

That quote you cherry picked is literally in a section talking about how hard it is to get into the committee and how slow the committee is.

So no, they are not failing to acknowledge that. It's literally the point of the quote you're responding to.

[blep_]

I just went back and reread the section to see if I'd missed something, and... kind of, I guess? They acknowledge that it is hard to join, but they don't seem to fully get why - that the problem is their system of scheduling meetings instead of discussing things asynchronously, not the ISO in itself. Without that realization, I would be surprised if a post-ISO C++ committee didn't just keep doing the same thing as before, because face to face meetings are the only way to be productive, right?

The "look at this pretty place I got to go to" picture immediately after that section does nothing to help this impression.