But newbies typically don't need to learn the whole mountain.
* Some new features are typically added to handle very specific cases that will rarely be encountered but can't be easily handled by existing mechanisms. These are typically used by library authors to make an API clearer or easier to use, and new developers won't need to interact with them at all.
* Some new features are added to replace existing features either partially or entirely (because the old feature had issues, or a better way of handling it was found). In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all, or if they do, they can learn it later as a more advanced technique.
I don't know a huge amount of C++, and I haven't been following Python much recently, but to use some examples from Rust:
* GATs and a lot of the newer trait features are very much in the former category. Very few Rust developers will be directly using the new tools, but library authors can use them to create easier-to-use APIs which benefit everyone.
* The `try` mechanism is often simpler to learn than all the Result/Option combinators, which drastically reduces the amount a new developer needs to know about to get started. You'll still probably need those combinators later, but you can now get started without them.
There are definitely some features that don't fit clearly into these two categories, and add a kind of overall complexity to the language. But I think a lot of people look at a big list of features and think "but that will be so much to learn", forgetting that (a) you probably don't need to learn a lot of it until you're already very advanced, and (b) a lot of it will be making other parts of the language obsolete and overall simpler.