You would have to spend an awful lot of time fighting garbage collection to make C++ worthwhile in an organization that isn't already well-versed in C++ develop

You would have to spend an awful lot of time fighting garbage collection to make C++ worthwhile in an organization that isn't already well-versed in C++ development. The learning curve is massive, the builds are slow, the errors are terrible (although better than they once were), and the tooling fights you every step of the way (CMake still makes me shudder).