I don't completely disagree with you, but in practice it's really hard to go back to C sometimes - there are a lot of tasks that are painful and error-prone to

I don't completely disagree with you, but in practice it's really hard to go back to C sometimes - there are a lot of tasks that are painful and error-prone to write in C. Complicated initialization and teardown logic that can fail mid-way is much easier to write incorrectly without RAII and scoped initialization objects, for example.