They almost work like this. std::move doesn't actually move an object; it leaves an intact instance... which we still don't know how to destroy (because its destructor is private). This also means that if we have an e.g. Outer struct whose constructor takes some kind of linear type, that Outer has no way to ever relinquish it again, which is a prerequisite of all those desirable linear type / higher RAII patterns.

This godbolt hopefully illustrates: https://godbolt.org/z/qqMnnKbnd though apologies if it's not too clear.

If C++ didn't have its quirks, you'd fundamentally be correct. Higher RAII can almost completely be implemented by this one sentence: make destruction private. (In fact, that's why Vale's `destruct` keyword is file-private)

To some extent, yes. It creates issues for stack allocated types.