Being able to cut 90% of code sounds like someone was getting paid by LoC (which is also a practice from a time when C++ was considered a "modern" language).
Yes, but not always. For example, what can now be written as single "requires requires" or a short chain of "else if constexpr" statements, used to be sprawling, incomprehensible template class hierarchy, before that feature got added.
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