Maybe? I was addressing your “I don’t see the opportunity where to use C++14 outside hobby projects.”

Compilers, games, and operating system components are archetypical systems software.

Google is on C++11, or was when I left in 2014. They may be on C++14 now.

If your employer won't use provably stable and almost entirely backwards compatible language improvements, you might want to just find another job. C++ is a hard enough language that someone out there will be willing to be sane about the language version they use.

I know I'd only touch 20 year old C++ code with the go-ahead to refactor it into C++14. I'd argue that not adopting smart pointers, standard threads and mutexes, and auto type deduction make projects effectively unmaintainable at sufficient scale.