I kinda get what you mean, I'm not a cpp dev but noticed some standards of engineering in crypto could be really low. Monero JS library was hands down the worst I've seen in my life
more example: for(int i=0;i<something();i++) where something always gives N inside the cycle, it tooks 10000 clocks to call, and they are suprised why it takes 5 minute instead of 1sec