Yup, that’s basically the idea behind lenses, once you add a few more ergonomic niceties.

The Haskell approach is to take any pattern, abstract it out into a library, and reuse instead of ever having to implement that plumbing again I.e. a very generic get/set_foo which could specialize to specific fields/structures. Following that, you could also write a lenses library in Cpp if you don’t want to redo this for every project.

The point is not that it can’t be done in non-functional languages, but that it’s an uncommon pattern AFAICT; the common approaches result in much less modular code.