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Operator overloading is adding complexity, making code subtly harder to read. The most important lesson for code is: It should primarily be written to be easy to read by humans because if code is not trash, it will be read way more often than written.
I would argue that there are very definitely cases where operator overloading can make code more clear: Specifically when you are working with some custom data type for which different mathematical operations are well defined.
Yeah, that's a very useful exception.
That's not the most important part of code at all. You can't just had wave complexity away because you don't like it.
Quite the contrary: I like patterns, inheritance and operator overloading as neat concepts. Its just that they are seldom useful in practice.
You and I work in very different fields then