I spent an ungodly amount of time over the past couple of years exploring ways to get views::enumerate (a view that yields an index + an element for each element of a range) to produce a struct with named members (index & value), as this is more ergonomic and safer than std::get<0>(*it). Alas, despite my best efforts and hundreds of hours invested, this proved almost unworkable.

Isn’t this a damming indictment of the language and everything that is wrong with it? How can something so simple be so hard?