Did you miss the part where he says: "We weren't trying to design a better C++, or even a better C. It was to be a better language overall for the kind of software we cared about."
"We—Ken, Robert and myself—were C++ programmers when we designed a new language to solve the problems that we thought needed to be solved for the kind of software we wrote. It seems almost paradoxical that other C++ programmers don't seem to care."