I'm not doing C every day but i have rarely any issues with it.

Do we really need to do better than C? I don't think so and i also don't think that the chosen new syntax is better.

At the end of the day, most critical is not the language but understanding how it works to optimize assembly etc. If you are only able to write simple C because you are not good in C/algorithms, you will not optimize your algorithms independently from the language.

If you are good in C/algorithms, you (or at least i) do not care about syntax details; You just look it up, and get acquainted to your specific underlying microarchitecture.