Your choice in the matter ends when you need to interact with other people's code. Which, unless you are doing a single-person hobby project, is almost all the

Your choice in the matter ends when you need to interact with other people's code. Which, unless you are doing a single-person hobby project, is almost all the time. Maybe more features != bad language per se, but they definitely add cognitive cost to the language and this is bad if the cost is greater than the benefit. In the case of C++ I think they have gone overboard long ago.