Yeah, after I wrote that I realized it wasn't quite right. C++ is designed by compiler-writer wannabes. Architecture astronauts[1] on standards committees. They think they understand how compilers should work, and that adding support for this or that should be easy. "You just need to..." is their favorite opening. I see plenty of this in distributed storage, too. "It's so simple, I'd do it myself, but it's not worth my time, you go do what I said." The C++ designers seem hung up on an abstract model of machines and compilers that's a poor match for any real machine or compiler ever, and the actual compiler writers have to bridge the gap. Thank you for your efforts, which are Herculean in an Augean-stables kind of way.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...