Are they ruining C++?

I use C++ since 1991 as a professional developer and maybe I am getting old, but are there other people who feel that the rapid new language standards for C++ are ruining the language?

Of course there have been many good things: the STL, smart pointers, range based loops, lambda functions, std::thread / mutex / lock_guard, ... these are all good things. But already for lambdas almost each time i have to use google to find out how to use them, because i don't use them every day (what must be placed within the square brackets?).

Bad things:

std::optional makes life not better for me, never used it. std::variant, same. The new UTF-8 string type (u8""). Did you ever try to write platform independent code using std::filesystem? It is a real pain. They just should have said file names may be UTF-8 for std::filesystem and Microsoft could have converted this internally to wchar_t strings. But no. Now you have to deal with u8 strings.

coroutines: i tried to understand how to use them, but to no avail. i have the impression there are some STL classes missing around it.

Basically, I have the feeling they keep adding stuff to C++ to keep up with other modern languages, but this poisons C++. My solution is to use the basic things and avoid all the newest bells and whistles. But then you look at job offers and they want you to be proficient in C++23. Do they even know why they are asking for it?

So, am I old and rusty, or are there people out there who share the same feelings?

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