It comes down to the type system. In C++ maximal use of the type system is optional. If your C++ code base is C with classes, refactoring will be a mess. If you

It comes down to the type system. In C++ maximal use of the type system is optional. If your C++ code base is C with classes, refactoring will be a mess. If your code base uses modern C++ with maximum type safety, refactoring is straightforward in the same way it is for Rust. The experience in C++ depends on the code base. Use of maximal type safety in modern C++ is astonishingly robust and expressive. If it compiles it generally works. The majority of developers are a bit lazy about type safety in my experience, which works against you. It depends on the org.