> I’m skeptical that there is a significant body of critics that share these patently conflicting views. If I take a serious look at my own C++ needs I do find

> I’m skeptical that there is a significant body of critics that share these patently conflicting views. If I take a serious look at my own C++ needs I do find myself having those contradicting views. Essentially what I find is that for areas of the language that do not pertain much to my day to day work I'm fine with "simplifying" (even if it means removing features, because I don't need those features) but for the things I work on (which I'll be the first to admit are likely quite rare in the general C++ population) it would be a deal breaker if the features that I use but most other people don't get removed.