Oh, I definitely don't avoid them entirely (I'm very liberal when it comes to unique_ptr in particular). It's more about not jumping headfirst into new features

Oh, I definitely don't avoid them entirely (I'm very liberal when it comes to unique_ptr in particular). It's more about not jumping headfirst into new features that I don't fully grok (or more importantly, when I don't really understand why you might prefer new feature X over old feature Y).