> The fun thing about C++ is that it’s really hard.

C++ definitely has a higher cognitive load than your average interpreted language. However, a big part of that cognitive load is due to support for highly optimized scenarios such as return value optimization. Most people write code that doesn't require it at all, and that's perfectly fine. The same goes for move semantics. You can spend a whole career writing code where all your classes do deep copies when passing objects by value. The compiler even graciously helps you not have to write all constructors and assignment operators to have your POCO class work out of the box. But once you feel the need to avoid those copies then you need to know what to do to nudge the compiler do that for you. That is a while subtle dance. That's when the cognitive load starts growing.