The zen of #cplusplus is that there is no zen. Every codebase is unique, no two large projects share every convention, and there are quirks everywhere. You'd no sooner expect two C++ codebases to conform to each other than you'd expect two families to have the exact same customs, tastes, and taboos.

The language is optimized for two things: making memory manipulation very explicit and, in that context, making the quirks from having every codepath make up its own rules for memory manipulation be tractable.