For a long time, I thought C++ is deeply unproductive due to its sheer complexity. It appears to me that much of the time is spent on unnecessary technicalities.
Since then, I've learnt that complexity in the language is nothing in comparison to the steaming pile of a Python codebase written by someone who thought this is a good idea
class ConstManagerFactory(FactoryInterface):
Bending C++ in unintended ways: