Or you could just skip the part after the author went "ugh, I have to write a visitor, that's like, so many characters to type." He's whining over a fairly min

Or you could just skip the part after the author went "ugh, I have to write a visitor, that's like, so many characters to type." He's whining over a fairly minor point and jumping through way more hoops than necessary. The proposed "default" way to visit std::variant is honestly pretty clear and simple in comparison to most C++ code.