[tialaramex]

> Or did we need to build out the C and C++ ecosystems to make them easy and safe?

If so, the C++ committee wasn't interested in doing so. Preferring instead to say that new features don't have safety if there was any possibility that doing so might provide opportunity for improved performance.

Don't worry, when inevitably you blow your feet off with any of the new footguns provided, they'll be happy to tell you that it's your fault, a true C++ programmer would have known not to do that. "Git gud" as the gamers say.