> you clearly want the answer to this question to be no

Uh yes. It’s phrased that way because it’s absurd. About half the comments in this section are a form of name calling by people who don’t understand constructors/destructors.

Those people who have no insight into how to make initialization better.

> Otherwise you risk becoming more and more irrelevant

Relevancy is relative to an audience. You want to listen to people who care and have your interests in mind.

C++ and Java are the most relevant languages in terms of professional software engineering.