The fact that things are still dog slow on modern hardware means we didn't go far enough into C like thinking. And compilers and hardware were much, much worse

The fact that things are still dog slow on modern hardware means we didn't go far enough into C like thinking. And compilers and hardware were much, much worse in the 70s. There is a reason C got adopted so quickly, and languages after those other languages took decades to become practical. That counter history is just made up nonsense. If we didn't have a convenient language back then, people would either just give up and keep writing assembly, or computing would have just slowed or stopped.