I'll make a similar, but fundamentally different, claim to what you're quoting: There isn't much demand for half assed memory safety features. And C++ memory

I'll make a similar, but fundamentally different, claim to what you're quoting: There isn't much demand for half assed memory safety features. And C++ memory safety features are - nearly by definition - half assed. They're opt-in (meaning all the third-party and system code you link against doesn't have coverage), slow (meaning you can't use it in production), and tend to catch the trivial bugs rather than the hard-to-find ones that keep you up at night.