I think you’re overgeneralizing here. I’m aware some parts of C++ standard library are outright horrible, like iostream and I/O in general. Other parts are que

I think you’re overgeneralizing here. I’m aware some parts of C++ standard library are outright horrible, like iostream and I/O in general. Other parts are questionable, like date & time, locales, and futures. Meanwhile, other parts of the same standard library are actually OK (most collections, threading, synchronization, atomics, smart pointers, initializer lists). And other parts are awesome, like most of the stuff from <algorithm> header. Apparently, one of the C++ design goals was to not pay for features which aren’t used. Selectively ignoring stuff from the standard library doesn’t have much downsides.