Agreed. Another way to think about it is the language is trying to get the compiler to do most of the heavy lifting. Stuff like auto makes sense with this attitude because why have the programmer think about what the type should be when it can be infered by the compiler? Also see templating.

I've come back to C++ after being away from it for a few years, and modern C++ (17, 20) is a delight to work with compared to what we had in the 90s. RAII especially...