Good point. C programmers have come to assume that C is a shitty language with terrible semantics and it's their fault for not using Rust or something. They blame the language for the mess made by standards/compilers.
I don't really like Rust; I like C. But, it could be improved, making one with less undefined behaviour and better macros and less confusing syntax for types etc. Many of the new programming languages that try to avoid the bad thing from C I think are avoiding most of the good thing from C, too.
