[omoikane]

I am actually glad that more and more of the metaprogramming techniques are built into the language itself, because people are going to try metaprogramming anyways, and their attempts at it are generally less readable without proper compiler support.

Anecdotally, I remember having to review a library written in C++98. It actually worked as promised, but it also did a lot of extremely clever things that were sort of unnecessary if we had just waited for C++11 with type_traits. We got rid of that library later after rewriting all the downstream dependencies.