C++ has become cockpit of Boeing 747
Too many controls? Yes.
Takes shitton of time to get ball rolling? Yes.
You need just bunch of them to get stuff done? Hell yes.
You still have to learn a lot of them if you plan to become professional? Yes.
You need to touch most of the fancy stuff only once in a while? Yes.
Many controls you wont be touching except once or twice in your whole career? Hell fucking yes.
You need those fancy controls when shit goes tits up? You better have them, or you are dead!
Creds: A.M.

I'm a massive aviation enthusiast (aspiring pilot!) And I've to say, that's an old 747, take the new 747-8 for example and compare the amounts of buttons... Sure, there are a lot of buttons which you won't be needing, but they could be used to jumpwire crap and actually get shit working (see the circuit breaker). But please, don't mix in how many buttons a plane has Vs how many functions a language has! You use almost all of the non emergency buttons on a flight, and you do the same thing in a programming language, you use the functions you need

@ribchinski *laughs in fly by wire*