aren't I super clever for managing to create this hideously complicated Rube Goldberg machine to solve a problem caused by people not communicating with each other

It's amazing how with a language as fragmented as c++ that everyone seems to be independently discovering warts in the proposed module implementation and no one seems to be coordinating things to enforce consistency across compilers. I get these are all separately maintained projects but god no ones gonna use the thing if everything supports it differently.