No, but fortunately (in this rare case), people also tend to... uhm... you know... after a certain age (or sooner, after too many energy drinks and sleepless nights) ...die :)

And the new generation usually comes with a fresh set of ideas about things, and some of the newbloods will be "stupid" enough to start and rewrite some of the C++ tools, at the expense of their employers that will see delayed projects and tons of bugs because of this, and probably fire the trouble-makers, but the retooling will happen anyway, so it's probably better for people to embrace it and start allocating budget slices for it.