We have many different constructs with slightly different menaing:

void* means: there exists a T, for which casting into T gives a valid pointer, which can be dereferenced

std::byte* is a pointer to raw memory

std::span is a pointer to a byte range with known length

struct T; T* is a pointer to an incomplete type

uintptr_t for storing of pointers

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In many decades, that could happen.  After all, void* replaced char*
back in the days.