He's right in many ways. They did the best they could at the time under the constraints that they had - try adding type-safety to K&R C while maintaining backwards compatibility with K&R C.
But now the only way forward I see for C++ to maintain its position as a mainstream language is to draw a hard line in the sand and effectively only keep all of the stuff that people refer to when they say "write in Modern C++", and remove everything else.
But now the only way forward I see for C++ to maintain its position as a mainstream language is to draw a hard line in the sand and effectively only keep all of the stuff that people refer to when they say "write in Modern C++", and remove everything else.