> As stated before, the asterisk is a symptom of how C++ fails to abstract object instances and leaves that to the developer. Something as basic as working with instances should be inherent to the language.

You don't always want to abstract away instances, as people have pointed out in other posts. Not every language abstracts everything. Your complaint seems to be that C++ makes you type a little more than other languages, and that's true. That verbosity provides finer degrees of control. If you want finer control over things you use a language like C++. If you don't, use something else.

This all just seems to be an argument of personal preferences. You don't like typing an asterisk, so you don't like C++. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should just say so instead of turning it into this issue of C++ having some sort of fundamental problem.