> C++ without a standard C++ library is not really C++.
You seem to be missing the point, which is that there was a time (two decades!) when the C++ standard library existed, but didn't include the STL.
> Only because C++ was the only thing available at the time, so people twisted it into 'OOP', despite the fact that C++ was very a poor fit for 'OOP'.
You are completely mistaken on your history here. C++ was intended to be "C with classes" from day one.
"Classes" is a low-level thing that you'd need for implementing many language features. Including things like 'abstract data types' of the ML kind.
Good C++ style has always viewed "OOP" as something highly suspect and hacky.
(This didn't apply to "classes" in the C++ vein, which are mostly about pre/post-conditions and RAII.)
> C++ without a standard C++ library is not really C++.
You seem to be missing the point, which is that there was a time (two decades!) when the C++ standard library existed, but didn't include the STL.
> Only because C++ was the only thing available at the time, so people twisted it into 'OOP', despite the fact that C++ was very a poor fit for 'OOP'.
You are completely mistaken on your history here. C++ was intended to be "C with classes" from day one.