There is a subset of C++ that is really pleasant to work with, performant, and simple-ish. Unfortunately, the community around the standards/development process

There is a subset of C++ that is really pleasant to work with, performant, and simple-ish. Unfortunately, the community around the standards/development processes just seem to want to keep adding more, more, and more to an already top-heavy language. Every idea in language design just must be added in. When you add in the problems from legacy C compatibility, you have a language that no one person can ever hope to grasp in its entirety. I mean, it's so complex now it pushed Scott Meyers into semi-retirement. I wish they would have just dumped C legacy stuff and started over some time in the 90s. Actually, the language D is precisely what I wish C++ had become. I just wish D was more widely adopted.