It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit