I completely agree. Not being an expert in C++ but someone that uses it almost daily, it's so incredibly frustrating to have to constantly battle the fact that

I completely agree. Not being an expert in C++ but someone that uses it almost daily, it's so incredibly frustrating to have to constantly battle the fact that for every choice, there are a million ways of doing it, and they're not all equal, but you only know that if you're an expert, or discover it when you fall flat on your face months later and have to refactor. Feels like I'm constantly shopping and left to figure out which deals suck and which are gems. Break all the eggs! C++ could be so much more effective if the backwards compatibility requirement could be overridden on the most basic of stuff that's still part of the language even though consensus, i.e., best practice, was to drop it out years ago.