When writing something to send to comp.lang.fortran I found myself having to refer to f2018 A.2 para 1 bullet points 19,20. (I hope I didn’t miscount. The topic was finalization.)
Years ago I was in a meeting discussing a document and had to quickly count and say “In bullet point 6 on the unnumbered page 7 …”. That convinced me that items in any document that anyone might ever have to refer to a particular item in should be labelled 1,2,3,… or a,b,c,… etc. That includes Fortran standards.