> The current contracts are not good enough for anybody who wants them -

This is a recurring pattern across large changes to c++. Modules and coroutines both are great examples of this.

> but it is good enough that they can start figuring out the details of making all the different factions happy.

I don’t think there’s really a plan to make the factions happy, there’s a plan to get X in, say it’s in and then ignore any actual criticism in favor of “it was the best we could do” while pointing at the other groups for not accepting the massive flaws.