> As an engineer, I use judgement to make context-dependent trade offs.

Well said.

This is why i am firmly in the Stroustrup camp of backward compatibility/zero overhead/better-C/etc. goodness of "old C++". I need to extend/maintain/rewrite tons of them and that needs to be as painless as possible. The current standards trajectory needs to be maintained.

The OP article is a rather poor one with no insights but mere hoopla over nothing.