Can you explain why [no ISO countries]? Because it will cause arguments about disputed places? I think only a small minority of places around the world are disputed.

Over the time I have been following this group:

• YAR, South Yemen -> Yemen
  
• Zaire -> DRC
• East Germany, West Germany -> Germany
  
• Yugoslavia -> Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia
• Serbia & Montenegro -> Serbia, Montenegro
• Serbia -> Serbia & Kosovo
• Macedonia -> Northern Macedonia
• Czechoslovakia, The Czech Republic, Slovakia
• Czech Republic -> Czechia
• Sudan -> Sudan, South Sudan
• And then there's Russia and the Ukraine
• Israel & Palestine
  
• And South Africa and Namibia

I'm sure I'm missing a few.

You may say that these are a minority of nations, but these changes have NOT by themselves necessitated ANY work on the part of this project.  That is a feature.  To be clear, that work would involve someone taking a political stance, even if that means supporting UN decisions (that's a political decision).  Better to stick with what we have: observe what people on the ground think the time is.

Eliot