> There are literally millions of C/C++ programmers and projects writing secure reliable code.

I believe that there are millions of C/C++ programmers that think they are writing secure reliable code. But these there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that they don't and (for C at least) can't. There is plenty of evidence that at least C does not give you the proper tools to actually write safe code outside of trivial programs in the first place. (I cannot speak for C++)

You're still arguing a strawman. Nobody wants to take away your pointers, manual memory management, unconditional jumps or assembly, and nobody is suggesting that you don't need them. People just want to make it easier to use them responsibly without making the mistakes everybody keeps on making all the time.