> I wonder if this is a factor for the decline in software quality Jonathan Blow talks about in his video.

Wouldn't hold my breath; I recall a tangent on programmers being "afraid of pointers". Depending on your favourite not-C-pointer way of managing memory, that's saying that use-after-free bugs are a sign of bad programmers, or shunning substructural/region/etc types for verifying that explicit memory management is correct.