This exactly. It’s a blessing and a curse, because I’d love to move to a “better” language like Rust or even Zig. But with 20+ years of C++ experience I feel like I’d be throwing away too much to avoid C++ completely. Also agreed that modern C++ is pretty decent. Lamenting that I’m back in a codebase that started before C++11 vs my previous job that was greenfield C++14/17.