It sure is complicated, and I say that as a full time c++ dev who sees it in a generally favourable light. There is a huge amount of knowledge that you need to

It sure is complicated, and I say that as a full time c++ dev who sees it in a generally favourable light. There is a huge amount of knowledge that you need to pick up over the years before you can consider yourself even an advanced c++ programmer let alone an expert. In my experience it's way more complex than c, JavaScript, Python and any Lisp. However, you can use it in a c-like fashion and avoid some of the complexity but if you want to work with anyone else's code then you have little choice but to learn that complexity.