[maccard]

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Since smart pointers because ubiquitous in c++, I've (personally) had only a handful of memory and lifetime issues. They were all deduceable by looking at where we "escape hatched" and stored a raw ptr that was actually a unique pointer, or something similar. I'll take having one of those every 18 months over throwing away my entire language, toolchain,ecosystem and iteration times.

[Galanwe]

I don't think it's a matter of putting one versus the other.

If you can get away with smart pointers and such, life is beautiful, nothing wrong there!

The debate here is rather for the cases where you cannot afford such things.