There's a saying, "If you want someone to feel good, hurt him and then stop". C++ is a classical example of this approach, every time C++ committee fights wart

There's a saying, "If you want someone to feel good, hurt him and then stop". C++ is a classical example of this approach, every time C++ committee fights warts it has created, it is perceived like a "cool new feature". What's exactly cool about this syntax? Is it that C++ can now mimic syntax of truly object-oriented languages better? What's the point if nothing has changed under the hood?