A wannabe replacement by…Herb Sutter. I dare to differ.

Which is exactly why he pretends to not be a wannabe replacement, as it is politically incorrect to have the chair of ISO C++ to also propose a C++ replacement.

CFront wasn't C, nor Objective-C was C, even though both originally started as macro preprocessors targeting C code generation, and were like Typescript for C.

They became their own thing, after enough user based was won, and nowadays all major C compilers and standard libraries are written in C++, not C.