C++ is an expert's language perfect for solving very difficult problems. Used properly it leads to an extremely elegant, efficient and agile code.

Now there's not "one way" of doing things and anybody is doing it "it's own way". There's probably more than ten C++ dialect.

When you're used to one dialect you tend to believe the other is "complicated". When you're not used to generic programming or templates you tend to think it's "over complicated" and "useless".

And if ever you mix the dialects, you end up pretty quickly with something horrible.