I actually don't disagree with your opinion: I wouldn't pick C++ as an environment to introduce programming either. But your reasoning was frankly awful. If those are the reasons you think C++ is "too complicated", then you really need to spend some more time learning C++.

You're right, those aren't good reasons for why C++ is awful. I think ERR i give up. You're right my whole rationale is pretty confusing. The class wasn't so bad in reality. We didn't really look deeply into the horrible "features" of C++.