C++ has a bazillion different ways of initializing a value, most of which contain syntactic footguns of some kind that don't do what you probably intended. That's not fundamental complexity of reality, that's messy evolution over decades coupled with the inability to break backwards compatibility.

C++ also does "lie" about reality in a lot of ways, in the sense that the actual compiled program behaves quite a bit differently than a plain reading of the code implies to a nonexpert. The most obvious form of this is the rules for effect ordering. Even the recurring complaints about the compiler doing unexpected things based on the as-if rule and undefined behavior seem to count here.