That's because the people who can't stand to deal with those things have found a way to stop writing C++. The rump of programmers still working in C++ are those who didn't care as much.
Is it to be interpreted that you switched to some other language and ended up being more happy using it? Willing to share any tips?
I did a limited amount of C++ some years ago - it was never my primary language, but there was a time when my primary stack was Python with C++ extensions. I'm a full-time Scala developer these days and love the language - it's concise and expressive, with a powerful type system (I guess C++ template metaprogramming is probably as powerful, but Scala makes that power practical to use) and reasonable runtime performance.