It's also why thinking critically about the initial 'mode' is important. The fewer mistakes that have to be embedded into the distant future, the better.
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As the x86 ISA teaches us, mistakes are forever.
x86 has quite a few features disabled. I'm pretty sure there are CPUs that don't implement BOUND and several that turned off SGX after shipping with it.
BCD instructions disappeared along the way.