1. Good question, 2. No, 3. Yes. But the broader the user base the least effective a single global library, ie stdlib, is at solving their problems. Hence you need a large and varied set of solutions, ie many libraries, to serve all users.
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Arguably the ill-fated 2D Graphics proposal starts at the basics: points, lines, etc.

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I mean, like, opening a window and getting a bitmap you can put pixels into. Drawing a line is already extremely complex (do you antialias? what level, if any? what color space? do you have a diamond exit rule?)
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One issue is that nothing is simple about graphics or SDL. Probably an order of magnitude more complex than anything the committee worked on so far.
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Yes, that brings me to my next point: There has to be some point at which you draw the line and say “this is no longer the C++ committee’s responsibility, it’s Khronos’”. Otherwise the C++ committee will grow to absorb everything.
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