As someone who learned C++ when it was C++03 and followed the language as it went through 0x all the way to 20, I have no idea how you would be able to avoid crippling a newcomer with the sheer volume of permutations of symbols and language behaviors that a C++ developer might regularly encounter. As a consequence of the ecosystem of older libraries, I've never had the pleasure of fully stepping away from old C++-isms. There's always a naked pointer or a malloc floating around somewhere in code I have to be able to read.

I still occasionally write C++ when I need to, but it's been a long time since I actually enjoyed doing it.