That kind of sounds like a lot of code bases I have worked in. Once you get some many people on a project things can get messy. Perhaps its a sign they have som

That kind of sounds like a lot of code bases I have worked in. Once you get some many people on a project things can get messy. Perhaps its a sign they have some DX and tech debt they should address. As for why the latest version of c++? Personally I have found the dx improvements of some of them to be worth the upgrade. I really like constexpr and the build time errors it gives (opposed to runtime). The newer standards let you use constexpr in more places with more stl types.