I would never go back. And the amount of campaigning I did at my last job to use C++11 was because all the new language features to allow compile-time checking

I would never go back. And the amount of campaigning I did at my last job to use C++11 was because all the new language features to allow compile-time checking helped us not do dumb things at run-time. Except for the stupid TI compiler, which is still stuck on C++03.