Why does C require such verbose struct definitions?

[btgvesta]

Why is it in C, do you need to be so verbose in writing out the definition of structs?
For example,

typedef struct V2
{
   int X;
   int Y;
} V2;

[bagaffey]

This has to do the the differences between C++ and C. C++ wanted to do away with 'ceremonial' type stuff like this.

In C, the struct definition and type tags are treated separately. Struct only defines a struct tag. This has to be used explicitly in each reference unless you also add a typedef.

It is also now, a little too late. Since, if C were to modernize and remove this verbosity, it could now break a bunch of old C code that uses this verbose syntax.
Imagine some C code referencing struct V2 everywhere in the codebase. So, this was kept to keep new C standards backwards compatible.