Apparently because of compatibility issues. Found this via the Wikipedia page about this feature.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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Protocol ossification is a huge problem. That's one of the reasons why the IETF went with the UDP based QUIC for HTTP/3.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!