Well, I've nothing to compare it with, but I never needed to look at most of the boilerplate, (wasn't it in the header, which I never looked at? I think I looked at the pages of boilerplate once ever), could just make any necessary changes in the Object Inspector. Never had problems breaking stuff, maybe because I made changes that way. In fact I realized some time later that I'd been writing C! Like the person who realized they'd been talking prose all their life. Now (sometimes) I just write in C, never C++.

p.s. I started (after BASIC) with Turbo Pascal, in the 80s. That was so awesome for its day.