My analogy was to compare wood and vinyl as building materials for flooring (I guess I omitted that) and asking if the existence of something newer invalidates

My analogy was to compare wood and vinyl as building materials for flooring (I guess I omitted that) and asking if the existence of something newer invalidates something older. I am skeptical that all language features make code better. It shifts the complexity from the code to the programmer. In order to read a piece of code, I need to potentially keep up with all of the new language features, which is a huge burden in C++. Those new features also have a tendency for complicating otherwise simple things. Like all of the edge cases that arise from objects with moving and exceptions. Sure the code might look simpler, but there is a lot more going on in the background you have to keep track of. When I write C++ now, it is typically as C with a few constexprs and templates thrown in. I try to avoid most of the new features because they just distract me from writing code that works.