I think C++ drags a lot of bad stuff in with the good, and it is reasonable to be skeptical of it.

For example, I think it was bordering on malpractice for lambdas to ship without anything resembling a borrow checker in place. With lambdas that borrow from the stack, introducing memory safety bugs is shockingly trivial.

Even if your codebase bans lambdas in C++, it's quite reasonable to not fully trust the teams which made the decision to ship them.

I’m not sure. One point I agree with the author is that it’s a complicated situation likely involving both social and technical factors.