[gkedzierski]

I know, I wasn't though (but I know I'm in a minority)

[lionkor]

No ownership semantics is a good thing?

[maratc]

I'm in an even smaller minority and I think C++ was a monstrosity already in 99.

To use an analogy, it looked like a cat with 11 legs, even back then. Of course they added more legs since, and they keep on adding.