C++11 has made things more complicated, not less. All these criticisms are still valid and can be extended with some added new stupidities (for example needing

C++11 has made things more complicated, not less. All these criticisms are still valid and can be extended with some added new stupidities (for example needing to explicitly specify capture in lambdas, a new and entirely unique way to shoot yourself in the foot; or user defined numeric literals which brings the joys of parsing C++ down the stack making even tokenizing it difficult).