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Perhaps the solution is not to attempt to get the language to be changed, but to develop tools (filters/preprocessors) that are used directly by the user or invoked by the compiler as requested with a matching option, in order to convert “succicnt source” to standard-compliant source. Some users, in fact, may be satisfied if the IDE/source-editor displays end when it sees end if in the source file, and so on?

Yes I think this is the only way forward. To implement such new features in a compiler first, and add a capability to transpile the extended Fortran back into standard Fortran so that it can be compiled with other compilers also. We already do a version of this with fypp in stdlib.