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> The language itself should abstract the proper way to work with objects.
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Just so we're clear: Your objection is that C++ is less object-oriented because you have to type the asterisk * as part of the type name.
There are a number of benefits in making the copy-constructor the default: RAII is impossible without it, and garbage collection can be done on a per-class basis (think about how you would implement automatic reference counting without the copy constructor).