I've just started learning C++ and C++11 makes things so much easier and they add desperately needed features such as threading and smart pointers which reduces the need for including more libraries. If anything, C++11 simply expands the standard library to include more functions that you'd otherwise have more difficult solutions for or have to include libraries for (such as BOOST, from which many features come from). I love what they are doing with C++11 and hope that the next major update includes even more features to make it an even more complete language (such as Python, which has countless standard libraries, far more than C++, that no one seems to be complaining about).