There's a lot of either "I like to pretend C is simple and simple is good" or "C++ has things I don't like, so I will refuse to also use the things I do like out of spite". You see it all over the place here whenever C or C++ comes up.
Using C++ while keeping people on a common subset of C++ features is very hard in practice. Google for example do a pretty extreme amount of restrictive code standard, training, linting and reinventing libraries to that end.
A lot of the motivation behind inventing golang seems to be to remove C++ toys, because it's too hard to get people to not use them if they're there.
