Exactly. So you aren't proposing any improvements if by your own admission, it's no more tedious. Except that it's actually more tedious implementing your own

Exactly. So you aren't proposing any improvements if by your own admission, it's no more tedious. Except that it's actually more tedious implementing your own bootleg object. Then managing the scope, namespace and pointers. When they could all be contained inside a language construct guaranteed to follow the rules.