Maintenance mode for the fortran standard?

We don't need (or want) to cast bricks at individual committee members, but the "standard development process" itself could use an overhaul if it's going to continue to take 10 years or so to develop each revision. We repeatedly read that "a feature could not be completed in time for the next revision and was dropped from consideration" when that feature (in and of itself) was conceptually relatively simple and the development span for that revision was between five and 10 years.