There’s something to be said for only using those features of C++ that you really need, if not because the platform demands it, then at least because it goes easier on the language-lawyering part of the brain.

I for one am perfectly happy with “C with destructors and templates”. The usual criticism of “C with classes” is levelled at a specific kind of code that’s neither particularly good C++ nor particularly good C. But not all “C with classes” is necessarily that way.