The problem with typedefs is that you have to find the definition. A compiler-aware IDE can help with this, but I keep cycling through intellisense, clangd, etc

The problem with typedefs is that you have to find the definition. A compiler-aware IDE can help with this, but I keep cycling through intellisense, clangd, etc. and they only work if you configure things just right -- not good for reading through some unfamiliar code. Consistent naming conventions help a lot, but then that just introduces assumptions that could be wrong. As with most points of code style, it comes down to taste.