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Two reasons:

1) It's not a standard at all. Some guy made a webpage and used the word "we". Even in the GitHub issues there was debate about what having this variable set would mean (e.g. should a call to a formatting service be blocked).

2) One maintainer pointed out that being an early adopter would force them into advocacy that they aren't prepared to do. Judging from how argumentative Sneak was being, there's probably an element of "we don't want to be the vanguard for this bully and his variable"



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