As a bonus:

> You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overloading, or any of the other more advanced features of the language.

It is incredibly funny how this argument has been used for literally decades, but in reality, you don't see simple, readable, nor maintainable code, instead, most of the C++ code bases out there are an absolute mess.. This argument reminds me of something...