[pjmlp]

Well, most of his points regarding complexity are not C++ specific.

The thing with equals applies to most languages that allow to redefine operators.

Even Java has gotten quite complex, I bet he would have quite an hard time succeeding at one of those quiz questions certifications (SCJP and friends).

And simplicity can also turn into more complexity, manual memory management in C vs C++, "templates/generics" in Go, libraries to work around language limitations in JavaScript (npm, yeoman, gulp, grunt, webpacker all at the same time).