> C++ apparently wants to separate 1 from 2 and 3, to move more high-level and get more "language magic" (templates, iteration stuff... ) without making the language any safer in any respect.
How so? Take std::unique_ptr for example, which exists since C++11. It facilitates using the language in a safer manner, and at a higher level of abstraction (you no longer have to manually malloc and free/new and delete - you just have the concept of scoped ownership), while at the same time not adding any “behind the scenes” magic (e.g. garbage collection) so as not to leave room for any high-level language to be more performant than it is - that’s the real motto of C++, to my understanding.