As covered in crbug.com/338094922 , __compressed_pair is a major contributor to debug info size. Many libc++ classes use them to store allocators, default deleters, and other things. I believe that no_unique_address was intended to be layout-compatible with the __compressed_pair technique, but I'm not sure it actually is.
Regardless, for unstable ABI users, it would be a major QoI improvement to avoid extra compressed pair template instantiations.
I thought this feature request had already been filed, but I couldn't find it.
Related work:
Can we do this yet?
cc @zmodem @cjdb @amykhuang @zygoloid