I think C++ drags a lot of bad stuff in with the good, and it is reasonable to be skeptical of it. For example, I think it was bordering on malpractice for lam

I think C++ drags a lot of bad stuff in with the good, and it is reasonable to be skeptical of it. For example, I think it was bordering on malpractice for lambdas to ship without anything resembling a borrow checker in place. With lambdas that borrow from the stack, introducing memory safety bugs is shockingly trivial. Even if your codebase bans lambdas in C++, it's quite reasonable to not fully trust the teams which made the decision to ship them.