Per Bothner writes:
I would have preferred to use the R6RS library keywords, and just standardize a subset on the R6RS functionality, even at the risk of some edge-case incompatibility.
Without syntax-case macros, we'd have no include or include-ci, and without the latter, we'd have no clean compatibility with existing R5RS case-insensitive code. Switching from keywords plus code to just keywords (one of which allows embedding code) made such extensibility straightforward.
The WG decided by unanimous consent to take no action on this ticket.