This analogy sounds nice but is deceptive. The problem is there's no place where a foot gun is appropriate. I need a toolbox for screwing things so I get a screwdriver toolbox, but in that toolbox is a foot gun designed to blow my foot off. Why? What context is that foot gun appropriate? Should I put it in the hammer toolbox? C++ has footguns everywhere and there's no context where many of those footguns are appropriate.

The other thing with C++ is the complexity. The toolbox is so jam packed full of millions of tools I have basically can't comprehend the full ecosystem and how everything works. Additionally I pick one tool and that single tool itself has like 20 different ways of being used with a bunch of edge case gotchas.