Taught C++ vs C++ in practice

Prefacing this by saying that I learned C and C++ in college and that the only difference at the time between these two, in the learning enviroment, was "C but you get to use vectors and classes :D". This extends to online resources and cheat sheets of C++ using examples that would be almost 1:1 in C. My issue here is that, whenever I see C++ code in the wild, it is written in a completely different manner with increased complexity, which makes it seem li