[RotsiserMho]

I'd say for strings it's entirely domain dependent. Many problem domain's won't ever use `std::variant` but may require that all strings live in ROM, so for those domains the default behavior makes perfect sense. If you want to compare C++ to modern languages, I get it, it's obtuse, but C++ is also used in instances where other languages can't be and so has to at least support doing things that may be unintuitive in other domains. That being said it would be nice if we could deprecate things with wholly better replacements like raw pointers, raw arrays, etc.