There are plenty statically compiled languages which don't abstract away the memory management, and are still way more robust to use than C, just start looking

There are plenty statically compiled languages which don't abstract away the memory management, and are still way more robust to use than C, just start looking at Modula-2. Programming in C makes a lot of sense in many situations compared to C++ or Python or Javascript, just to name a variety, but not so much when compared to many other languages, which really compete in the same space as C, but did not catch the same attention.