> That's the point, std::byte is for opaque bytes. You're not expected to do arithmetic directly just like you can't do arithmetic on void. That'd make a whole

> That's the point, std::byte is for opaque bytes. You're not expected to do arithmetic directly just like you can't do arithmetic on void. That'd make a whole lot more sense to me if `std::byte` didn't explicitly implement a whole bunch of bit twiddling operations: << >> |= &= ^= | & ^ ~ This isn't opaque. This is a poor man's half-assed `std::bitset<8>` with a guaranteed `sizeof(std::byte) == 1`.