Yes. As much as I love C++, I sometimes get very scared by the implicit behavior. This is why I don't understand the hate on exception-free, more C-like C++. You can still reap huge benefits from std::algorithm, iterators, classes, templates, while stepping back to a more manual approach for allocation and lifetime management.

You definitely have to pick and choose from C++ based on environment, your staff's experience, what kind of problem you're solving. Allocation in particular is problematic in every language (even GC languages) especially when latency is an issue, so that's probably what I manage 'manually' most often.