All of these sorts of reasons are why I skipped learning C++ and don’t intend to use it. I learned C and then C#. I can’t imagine using C++ after using C# - modern C# and .NET have loads of performance and native related functionality including pointers, Span, AOT, etc.
From my outside perspective it seems absolutely chaotic and simply unmaintainable.
Kind of, except for the small detail that WinDev loves their C++, and leaves to the .NET community the burden to create libraries, or even Windows Runtime components for their APIs, and also has Windows integrations that don't allow for COM implementations in .NET, forcing some of us to keep our C++ skills up to date.
From my outside perspective it seems absolutely chaotic and simply unmaintainable.