alt Hacker NewsOh come on; that is BS and you know it.
It is complex/complicated/baroque but for the power, flexibility, real-world-usage that it provides it is worth the effort. The mistake that people make is to try and learn it all at the same time which overwhelms them.
Use a good book like Discovering Modern C++: An Intensive Course for Scientists, Engineers, and Programmers by Peter Gottschling and you should have no problem at all.
For context: I have over a decade of professional experience with c++ in large scale software projects and it is by far the language over which I have the most mastery.