You're kinda ignoring the middle ground there? Intentionally maybe? Libraries written in 2008 and still maintained have long since moved to C++11 or C++14 or ne

You're kinda ignoring the middle ground there? Intentionally maybe? Libraries written in 2008 and still maintained have long since moved to C++11 or C++14 or newer. The baseline is easily a post-C++11, which was a huge turning point. > C++ will always pick the wrong defaults Oh definitely. Bad defaults are probably my only remaining complaint with modern C++.