Clearly you know nothing about how ASTM standards are developed, or how its consensus processes work. An ASTM consensus standard is an imperfect compromise influenced by any and everyone who wants a say in the process, including lots of non-technical folks and lots of folks with competing interests.
If you have a tough technical problem to solve you would never go to ASTM and ask them to develop a standard for how to solve it, unless of course you don’t want the problem solved. Seems like that’s what been going on here.