It does because you claim that the changes are "incremental" and they claim that there's an (unsubstantiated) "pain of upgrading". These two formulations are in contrast one to another. The pain of upgrading would be something that is substantial or complex and long-lasting. Incremental OTOH is considered something more trivial and something that can be done in much less time. Switching to C++17 is an incremental change but not an incremental release.
Since they have not given any substantiated reason for "we're still on C++11 because the pain of upgrading is larger than the promises of C++14/17", I'm afraid that this is a FUD by its very own definition:
FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information, and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear.
I hope it's clear now that giving false information with a negative appeal without substantiated content is not how it's done when it's done in good faith. I couldn't care less how they write software and in which language but bad arguments are bad arguments.
It does because you claim that the changes are "incremental" and they claim that there's an (unsubstantiated) "pain of upgrading". These two formulations are in contrast one to another. The pain of upgrading would be something that is substantial or complex and long-lasting. Incremental OTOH is considered something more trivial and something that can be done in much less time. Switching to C++17 is an incremental change but not an incremental release.
Since they have not given any substantiated reason for "we're still on C++11 because the pain of upgrading is larger than the promises of C++14/17", I'm afraid that this is a FUD by its very own definition:
I hope it's clear now that giving false information with a negative appeal without substantiated content is not how it's done when it's done in good faith. I couldn't care less how they write software and in which language but bad arguments are bad arguments.