The environments we work in shape our biases and what we find good and bad.

Game programmers spend their careers writing C++ where, yes, you really need tricks like this to rename the variable, as the language is so fucking insane that ALL tooling gets it wrong - and the consequences of getting it wrong can be disastrous.

The most widely used options for C++ are VS's IntelliSense and clangd. IntelliSense is utter garbage, I never trust it for renaming things. clangd is better but can still get things wrong if your build process is complicated your compile_commands.json doesn't perfectly reflect it.

Managed languages have fantastic tooling with perfect context of your project, but they're also managed and are not applicable in a lot of environments.