Comment by Joker_vD

Well, there is also a question of attitude. Most of the Python programmers don't overload << or >> even though they technically can, while in C++ that's literally the way the standard library does I/O ― and I suspect it leaves an impression on people studying it as one of their first languages that no, it's fine to overload operators however quirkily you want. Overload "custom_string * 1251" to mean "convert string from Windows-1251 to UTF-8"? Sure, why not.