I love C++, it was my next language after Turbo Pascal, there was a small stint with C, but already in 1992 it felt outdated.

However, during the last decade C++ culture suffered, probably it has taken too many C refugees.

What you call old way, it is still how many folks write C++ in big corporations, I tend to complain that I only see Modern C++ in conference slides, and my own hobby coding.