I think C requires more of people. Granted I am no C expert but having worked in the industry a couple decades I have made conclusions based on observations.

As a sysadmin I wrote a small kernel module to trigger a panic on a certain condition hoping to capture some info in a dump several years ago.

Today I cant find sysadmins who can use a CLI properly.

The goalposts have moved inwards IMO

Not sure its bad thing either but it makes for interesting comparisons