I found the original ANSI C to be more straightforward, and many times after I was asking myself "why was this done in this way" I only realized that I would ha

I found the original ANSI C to be more straightforward, and many times after I was asking myself "why was this done in this way" I only realized that I would have ended up with the same way of doing things - e.g. that the stack arrays should just skip the "pointing" memory, and things like that. What you saw in the presentation are mostly just later complications that popped up from the attempt to improve the manner of approach while keeping the entire thing speedy and backward-compatible. Do you think this is too much? Take a look at C++11 and marvel at the quantity of language hacks there!