It's ok to like OpenMP.

What I disagree with is that it should be suggested to beginners as the way to parallelize their C++ programs.

That's like telling a Javascript programmer that they should parallelize their programs by using Python or C.

Show them how to do it in Javascript, or in this case, in C++, so that they don't have to learn a whole new programming model or language to just write parallel code.

Particularly when C++ has supported this for so long now.