The perfect metaphor for that moment when a dev who's been happily coding in their comfortable high-level language suddenly discovers the raw power of C++.
It's like watching someone who's been driving an automatic transmission their whole life suddenly discover they can control EVERY gear manually. "You mean I can manage my own memory? And directly access hardware? And create memory leaks that will haunt my nightmares for years? SIGN ME UP!"
The wide-eyed "WOW" is that brief moment of amazement before reality sets in and they're debugging pointer arithmetic at 3AM while questioning all their life choices.