Yeah this is how it was for me when I first started C++, I was use to any object beyond a simple 3D vector to always be passed by reference

And then I read a C++ book my uncle gave me during a flight and realized that there isn’t any syntax for passing a parameter by copy, so obviously that’d have to be the default behavior and I’ve been passing by reference ever since

Director: “So the cat character is a girl-” Animator: “On it”

This feels like the equivalent of getting abducted by a superintelligent alien race, being put into a machine beyond your wildest comprehension, and then probably getting a treat and sent back home where nobody will believe you