> RAII is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place (having to track the individual lifetimes of thousands of tiny individual objects with

> RAII is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place (having to track the individual lifetimes of thousands of tiny individual objects with complex interdependencies) That's not what RAII is at all. You're projecting an extreme use case on the whole feature. You can use RAII to clean-up the arena at once without forgetting to do so. To manage the lifetime of a socket or mutex. No one is forcing you to go full-OOP individual-allocation design when RAII is available, that's just terrible programming in general.