[asveikau]

I think my objection along those lines, if I were searching for one, is not with the quality of what is being added but with the fact that it takes effort to keep up with them.

C++11 introduces hugely useful stuff. I would much rather have it than C++03, c++98, etc.

Whenever I come across things introduced in 14 or 17, I usually evaluate it and say, that addition makes sense, maybe it should have been there sooner. But I am not actively seeking out that information. So I am never up to date.

It is a big contrast from a few decades earlier, where you would expect to use very few new features from the standard for a period of many years. That is also the expectation the C standard gives: it hasn't changed substantially since 1999, and even that you could call relatively minor since 1989. But I still think they are doing a good job with modern c++, even if these old expectations are no longer the case.