Why didn’t `accumulate` make it into Ranges for C++20?

No, accumulate is a perfectly reasonable algorithm, and it’s not made obsolete by any other algorithm. The reason for it not being included in C++20 is simply a matter of time. It was considered better to add as much as possible with regards to ranges, without worrying about adding everything at once. Otherwise, there was a risk that none of the constrained algorithms would have made it to C++20, which would have been a shame.

There are still a few algorithms that haven’t been constrained yet, as well as the entirety of the <numeric>, and <memory> headers.

Forunately, there is a proposal to add these remaining algorithms (and I’m optimistic that these will be added in C++23). In fact, the introduction to this proposal answers your question nicely:

“Every time someone asks why we didn’t cover <numeric> and <memory> algorithms: We thought 187 pages of TS was enough.”
— Casey Carter

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