The Académie nowadays is (mostly) a bunch of old politically influent people with zero or little linguistic knowledge. They stopped reforming the language almost two hundred years ago and now they can only hope that people will keep paying them attention. But the language will keep evolving and drifting, and they will keep resisting, until the divergence will be so large that they will just disappear into nothingness, and people will ask: "why did people bother with them for so long?..."
Or, as the young ones do nowadays, they'll just say "Cheh!" to the Académie.
Or, as the young ones do nowadays, they'll just say "Cheh!" to the Académie.