Actually, he does discuss this in section 4b. He doesn't come out as strongly in favor of it, "The jury is still out on whether to recommend this one wholesale," although he does list what he considers some advantages. He also acknowledges in section 6 that it doesn't work for non-moveable types.

Despite my tendencies towards almost-always auto, I can't say that I consistently use auto x = type{init}, but there is certainly nothing wrong with it.