If a less complex language meets your requirements, by all means use it. But I still have no idea how that is relevant here. C doesn't give you safety and less

If a less complex language meets your requirements, by all means use it. But I still have no idea how that is relevant here. C doesn't give you safety and less complex languages don't give you performance and control. That's why comparing rust to c++ is useful. But the way I think the higher complexity of rust over c is also not a big deal in practice, for much the same reason as I gave for rust vs c++. But that is also irrelevant here.