But just because the feature shipped and design-by-committee is upon us doesn't mean we need to accept the outcome. Why couldn't there have been a more evolutionary path for this feature? For example, there is surely a way to write a prototype library to accomplish the same effect with slightly different syntax. (How about a single function `walrus(a, b)` that does what `:=` does?). Then let real user adoption drive the change. Maybe somebody will discover case statements from scala and want that instead.

I hope the committee models some amount of their work after WG21. C++ hasn't evolved so effectively because some people were magic visionaries. For the past decade, C++ has mostly ridden on the proven success of boost. And skipped a lot of the parts of boost that suck.