Not the C++ itself (althought I don't like it myself, it sure has some benefits in some case), but I fear the author might be losing focus. Just an example: I know several guys who keep working on the same project, reshaping it to whatever new ideas they have and/or technologies arising. The problem being that the actual project itself doesn't advance.
I feel the same actually. I've spent quite some time on this C++ conversion and I'm a bit frustrated about not advancing the product right now. But the alternative to continue with the tedious manual cut n' pasting of C code is was not very nice either.
I still believe that it will be better in the end.