> Perhaps the people who dislike auto in C++ would also dislike the equivalent feature in other languages but they just happen to not work in them?

How do you reconcile that world view with the fact that people are shipping billions of line of codes that obviously work in languages where until recently you couldn't even write any type anywhere (JS, Python) ?

I'm not sure what is there to reconcile or even what world view you refer to. Personally i do not use these languages much and when i do it is usually very short code and looks very different to code i'd write in a language with static strong typing.

I don't think so. auto adds some more complications in C++ than var or let in other languages. Consider "const auto& a = x" vs "auto a = x". What exactly is the type of a? It depends.

Auto makes it harder to know the type in question, if C++'s auto is slightly more cryptic than var or let in other languages, doesn't really matter that much if what you dislike is not knowing the type in question in the first place.

But honestly i can only talk about me here, i can't guess why some imaginary other developer who dislikes a feature does dislike it.