As a developer who doesn't really write C++ code I'm inclined to agree, but I think Herb Sutter's "syntax 2" project might provide a nice way out of that mess eventually.

I played around with cppfront over Christmas and it was a lot more ergonomic than my distant memories of C++11, which I don't even have negative memories of per se.

[0] https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront