If programmers can't be diligent enough to learn simple unique pointers, they won't bother being diligent about any of their code. So you may design a better p

If programmers can't be diligent enough to learn simple unique pointers, they won't bother being diligent about any of their code. So you may design a better pointer for them (if possible) and still have a huge spaghetti ugly bug-ridden insecure unmaintainable codebase... But at least the pointers are easy! Even of you make them program in a rubber room helmet language, they are going to cause just as many problems. Tools like unique_ptr are meant to let the good programmers work more expressively and make fewer mistakes. They aren't meant to let random folks write perfect code without thinking and learning first.