Why is C++...

...so bad? Why does it have such a bad reputation?

I'm an experienced C++ programmer and, while the language has warts, I can't understand the reason for the enormous amount of criticism against the language.

I'd like to hear the honest opinions of /prog/rammers in this regard.

There's nothing wrong with C++, it's decent at what it was designed to do. I.e., to be an OO superset of C. If you need an OO language that is a superset of C, then you should use C++ (or Objective-C), otherwise there are better languages out there.