Everything's a tradeoff. Zig's insistence on banning hidden control flow does force you to write destructors, yes. But that has led to the Zig standard library

Everything's a tradeoff. Zig's insistence on banning hidden control flow does force you to write destructors, yes. But that has led to the Zig standard library (and wider idiomatic culture) having standard allocators as parameters. So in practice you can just choose an arena allocator and stop worrying about cleaning things up yourself.