It’s hard to fault the static analysis tooling here. Not freeing memory is, almost always, unintended behavior. Besides, if a business is going to blindly apply

It’s hard to fault the static analysis tooling here. Not freeing memory is, almost always, unintended behavior. Besides, if a business is going to blindly apply static analysis to their projects and then demand that every warning be “fixed”, then the tool really isn’t the problem. Still, any serious developer should, at the very least, have the patience to interrogate their code.