In fairness, the Steering Committe did however make a conscious
decision not to designate Objective-C a release-critical language.
That is because there are more features in GCC (support for
languages, chips, optimizations, etc.) than there are people to
maintain them all -- especially to keep them all working all the
time in all possible cross products.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify the situation. But..
Regardless of how you sugar-coat it, designating a language as not
release critical means in practice you can't rely on GCC going
forward for that language. And when there are manpower shortages,
the situation is not likely to improve -- rather, the gaps that need
to be filled for support to return will increase.