Lacking a strict type system, discriminated unions, if-expressions (they exist in C but are often discouraged because of readability concerns), match expressions, macros that are AST members, procedural macros, guaranteed mutability restrictions with the borrow checker, etc. are things that a coding rule and analyzer can't bring into a language like C. Most importantly no module system to keep yourself somewhat isolated from third party code that you have no control over.
Add to that that you have humans checking each violation whether they think it will cause problems. Humans fixing these. And in a lot of cases humans not fixing these. Then you're actually still left with a lot of code that à stricter compiler like Rust or Ada would have rejected in the first place.