Most Internet hivemind (euphemistically called "conventional wisdom") behavior is more about belonging and less about discussing truth. It's similar to the rant

Most Internet hivemind (euphemistically called "conventional wisdom") behavior is more about belonging and less about discussing truth. It's similar to the rants about Perl's ugliness: it's up to the programmer to make it readable. C++ can be a perilous language, but it affords a surprising amount of expressive power with a very low performance overhead. It requires you to be focused and think clearly about things like object lifetimes. It rewards thinking hard ahead of time to simply jumping in, writing code, and debugging it until it works.