He's making it massively more complex than it actually is { // this scope is owner // allocate auto my_obj = MyObj{}; // this function scope does not

He's making it massively more complex than it actually is { // this scope is owner // allocate auto my_obj = MyObj{}; // this function scope does not have ownership of my_obj, should take (const MyObj& obj) const reference as parameter do_something(my_obj); } // memory is released