I hated learning/using C. Once I was introduced to C++, it was like a breath of fresh air. Sure, at lot of it stylistic in nature. But those frameworks matter. They really do.
That was my path, back in 1991-92, coming from Turbo Pascal, C felt like a step backwards, luckily the teacher that provided us with Turbo C 2.0 for MS-DOS, also had a copy of Turbo C++ 1.0 around, and thus I became the only kid in class that would rather use C++ when given the option.