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My guess would be: banning of namespaces and templates greatly simplifies name resolution and so on. For instance, look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lookup and then remove namepsaces and templates from the picture.

Or maybe they just wanted developers to be "less creative".

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