The person is arguing that it is a massive difference, not a typo. I am saying that if that is the case, then maybe the hamming distance between correct and buggy code that both compile should be greater than 1, regardless if more tooling can help solve the problem or not.

I specifically take issue with this framing of it is not an issue for we have the tools to help with this, especially where the tools are not part of a standard distribution of a toolchain and require more than minimal effort. C++ has had many a warts for many decades, and the response has always been *you are just holding it wrong* and not running a well covering integration test suite with sanitizers on every commit, you just need to run one more tool in the CI, just a comprehensive benchmarking suite, have more eyes looking for a single char difference in reviews.