Those sound like idiosyncrasies of CPP that you shouldn't care about, unless you want detailed expertise in CPP. ... Which is fine if you've got an application

Those sound like idiosyncrasies of CPP that you shouldn't care about, unless you want detailed expertise in CPP. ... Which is fine if you've got an application in mind, but otherwise, they're a distorted view on the concepts to fit a specific implementation. Most of those concepts are all describing, "when do you tell somebody where to point?" and "when do you follow the arrows?"