[MaxBarraclough]

Sutter made that point under Maintainability and robustness.

Like Sutter's answer, this point doesn't answer the complaint. People on the anti-auto side say it seriously harms readability, as locals' types are no longer clear at a glance. They aren't asking for a list of reasons why some people favour auto, they're asking for an answer to their readability problem.

Perhaps IDEs could infer types and display them as a superscript. That would keep just about everyone happy. (Perhaps not Vim users.)

[GoblinSlayer]

Herb didn't say it well enough. It's a tradeoff between correctness and readability. If it wasn't for C++'s weak type system you wouldn't be required to make this tradeoff and could improve readability while still staying correct.

[skocznymroczny]

In IDE-friendly languages like Kotlin, you can enable showing of inferred types, e.g. https://i.stack.imgur.com/tiqjc.png

[MaxBarraclough]

Perfect, just what I was thinking. Does something like that exist for C++? Visual Studio 2019 doesn't seem to have it, but it's able to show a local's type when I hover over the local's identifier.