"Why Boost doesn't boost my productivity"

I found a good article on learning Boost, C++ libraries.
http://agentxcpp.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/why-boost-doesnt-boost-my-productivity/

To make a long story short, the author wants to say that “Boost requires unnecessarily complicated coding style, which decreases code readability quite a bit.” Of course Boost contributed to the C++ a lot, for example boost::thread became the standard for C++11 std::thread. Yet, for some, libraries discourage readabilities of the code, and documentation lacks necessary information, resulting in making big wall against the newcomers who want to enter the world of Boost.

One thing fun is that the target being compared is Qt, which I rely on the most. Say, even myself sometimes asked myself that “why do people use Boost?”, because most of the features are already ready-made in Qt and Qt tries to reimplement main features of Boost.

I agree with the author most of the time, but considering boost::thread or boost:signal, which don’t require much time to learn, the viewpoint is not always applicable to all of the components - it’s just case by case.

Well, please regard this memo as one small opinion of a programmer who didn’t take any formal programming course, but by chance earn money by programming in a niche market.