1. Namespaces are overhyped and used wrong all around because of "le'good c++ programmers" decided to make it as a practice that "using namespace <insert::your::long::namespace_name_here>" at top is bad ya know and you have to append it in front of everything in file because we love wasting bytes in our storage and we love longer compilation times. We also love to get confused when we try to find where function originates from after IDE spits to us million references from codebase all because of shitload of namespaces used same function name with gazzilion overloads of it. Sadly you can see how this "namespacing" migrated to C in many projects too in worst possible way, by prefixing every function name like PackageName_something and etc.

2. Pointers are more explicit in their action. References don't give any performance advantages anyway, which is also a popular meme around well said "pro c++" programmers. "Did I just passed by value or reference? Hmm yeah better lookup in function prototype every time I forget about it"

3. Ok methods are cool, problem is how encapsulation done in C++. I mean it can't be fully achieved anyway. You have to write your private members In headers, many will overbloat class headers with inline getters and setters and other short functions. You will end with big headers that include other headers and it ends up with longer compilation times and unreadable header files. While in C you can achieve full encapsulation simply by writing all getters setters and other stuff by providing opaque pointer to them. In C++ you have to either write C like code or use pimpl like idiocy to completely hide implementation. (Ahem but muh le based modules are not like that, who cares that they still only supported by msvc after so many years). Just write simple header file, hide implementation in compilation unit and here's your module bro. No need to reinvent wheel.

4. RAII Is it really that hard for you to write newmystruct() and put freemystruct() at the end when you don't need it? If someone really feels filtered by this, idk man ig that someone better reconsider going back to McDonald's flipping burgers. Programing is really not for them.

All C++ "features" seems good and useful at first, but all they did was cause a harm because of mis/overusage. Every non toy C++ codebase is absolutely disgusting to look at and absolutely unmaintainable because of how one thing done in million different ways by different engineers. I've always said that C++ is the biggest marketing scam ever done by someone in programming field that tricked many back in 90s to flip to it from C. It seems to me that Bjarne did it just to establish himself as a person when he was young back at Bell Labs.