[estebank]

It's not about an original sin, it's about the practicalities of changing the default behaviour without pissing off your users.

[dataflow]

Sure, but again, that's an argument for why you dislike C++, not an argument for why false positives in that Clang-Tidy check somehow disqualify it from being compared to the corresponding checks in Rust, especially when they both have false positives.