The problem with C++ is that the language is too damn big. This results in most programmers only learning really well a subset of the language.

Unfortunately, different programmers end up with different subsets.

I'd like to see some de facto standardization on subsets. For instance, there could be Basic C++. When programming Basic C++ you use it like C with the following C++ features added: constructors, destructors, references, std::string, and maybe the STL collections.

Simple Object C++ could be Basic C++ plus single inheritance.

The on top of that, we could add things like multiple inheritance, operator overloading, templates, and so on.