I've worked in a variety of languages, and returning to a c++ project recently I do see that we spend a lot more time thinking about how to write the code in a way that avoids problems. Meaning that there's a lot more architecturing required to reach a sane state.

We have a sister product written in a dynamic language, and sometimes we have identical functionality.

I've noticed that when a change is discussed, the c++ gang has architectured themselves into the current solution and therefore have a much harder time making changes.

So for that reason I think it's easy to overlook these complexities when you're working in c++ alone; they feel natural and are just part of how you work. You forget that a lot of this architecturing just isn't necessary in a lot of other languages.