Very few ELF platforms still use .ctors/.dtors now. Linux (glibc: 1999-07),
DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD (2012-03) and Solaris have supported .init_array
for many years. Some architectures like AArch64/RISC-V default to
.init_array . GNU ld and gold can even convert .ctors to .init_array .
It makes more sense to flip the CC1 default, and only uses
-fno-use-init-array on platforms that don't support .init_array .
For example, OpenBSD did not support DT_INIT_ARRAY before Aug 2016
(https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/86fa57a2792c6374b0849dd7b818a11e676e60ba)
I may miss some ELF platforms that still use .ctors, but their
maintainers can easily diagnose such problems.
I'd like to consider inverting the default. I suspect for a lot of the cases where this results in defaulting to ctors, we actually want to use init_array. However, that would be a functional change, and therefore out of scope.