Sure, yet this is the outcome from companies deeply involved in ISO, let alone those where regular folks don't even care HN exists.

Ironically, most modern C++ code I wrote was not for Microsoft, but a much smaller company that is not in any way involved in ISO C++ standardization process. It was due to that company culture - senior engineering leadership (which were also the founders) were all big standard C++ fans, and they wrote much of the original codebase.

Large companies like MS often have codebases that are so ancient (e.g. HRESULTs and IF_ERR_GOTO type macros everywhere), they only get modernized very gradually if at all.

I only use C++ for libraries that are then plugged into managed runtimes.

Most of the stuff I see in the wild could be considered what I call C+, basically MFC style with plenty of C love.

While Microsoft has the excuse for older code bases, stuff like WRL and C++/WinRT also has its share of not only following what is preached regarding C++ Core Guidelines love.