Point taken; I have never had to deal with poorly written code that makes casual use of obscure C++ features. My shop tends to be very careful with the sharp e

Point taken; I have never had to deal with poorly written code that makes casual use of obscure C++ features. My shop tends to be very careful with the sharp edges, so you don't have to have guru knowledge to skim our code and see what's happening. All potential "gotchas" are commented, just like any other difficult code. Obviously the standards you can realistically demand from your coworkers go out the window when you're dealing with legacy code.