Is the C++ language enshittified? Can you use the "numbers must go up" argument to explain it? Of course you can say the committee has to add new features to

Is the C++ language enshittified? Can you use the "numbers must go up" argument to explain it? Of course you can say the committee has to add new features to justify its existence. But that just seems like a superficial explanation. Maybe overall the newer editions of the language seem like a good idea. But complexity explodes until everyone is just using their own unique subset of the language. Anyway I'd like to read a take on enshittification and C++, since C++ is a long-lived "project" and the standards committee and process is more open than FitBit, with an more interesting mix of stakeholders (with more of a principal/agent problem?).