My interpretation is that games want to allocate large pools of resources, like GPU buffers, cpu memory, etc, and reuse that memory over and over. Ie: Reinitialize it.
They might say this, but there isn't a good technical rationalization here since anyone can create a global data structure just as easily in C++.
People who are motivated by a superiority complex or by the wish to impress a herd of twitter followers hardly if ever produce a thought I want to read.
It just seems to be wholesale aggravation so they want to reject things without a sound reason.
If someone asked me why I avoid inheritance I would go on a well thought through rant that connects real problems to the pragmatic reality of what that feature brings.
Yet if my job requires to use C or Go, I like my paychecks, have bills to pay and being proud doesn't pay bills.
Same thing with them, having to use C++ at work, doesn't mean they are big fans of it, indeed the very reason Jai exists is for Jonathan Blow never to use C++ again on his projects.