However, with all the "great" features of C++ like templates, RAII, and overloading, programmers use and abuse every corner of them to build overly complicated

However, with all the "great" features of C++ like templates, RAII, and overloading, programmers use and abuse every corner of them to build overly complicated ways to basically create domain-specific languages. It happens in over half of the C++ libraries I've used, otherwise they would just make their API in C.