You are not alone. many on the standard committee are trying to get rid of it. std::print is the new way to do io instead of cout in part so you don't have to abuse shift for io. This is new in c++23 though so few people know about it.

Bjarne appears to prefer cout though, so it isn't universal.

On the plus side, it's optional. The same thing can be achieved with put()/get() equivalents.

>operator overload abuse

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