[chongli]

CPU designers don't like having their hand forced like that. If you create a new standard forcing them to add extra hardware to their designs, they'll skip your standard and target the older one (which has way more software marketshare anyway). They will absolutely bend over backwards to save a few cycles here and a few transistors there, just so they can cram in an extra feature or claim a better score on some microbenchmark. They absolutely do not care at all about making life easier for low-level programmers, hardware testers, or compiler writers.