My suggestion is if possible someone from our group/view should try to apply whatever means we can to keep C clean, clear and simple to implement the standard, allowing the people who feel the drive to "improve things" to direct that at a different language standard, or an offshoot of some sort. I think a lot of the folks need to play chesterton's fence, until only the most crucial changes percolate up.
I feel it is important to the commercial space that the C standard remains more carefully preserved.