That was my impression when I took a course in C++ as a grad student. The course emphasized C++11, so I assume it represented (at the time, early 2013) modern usage. But 80% of every lecture consisted of presenting some example code, and explaining how what you think this code should do (if indeed it's obvious at all) is probably wrong. So many gotchas. It made me terrified to think of trying to write/test/debug a large and sophisticated C++ code base.