Ok, so old folks still use C, but we have come a long way since the seventies gramps!
Why would anyone do a C clone?? This is not worth even looking at, a waste of people’s time.
Try Zig instead or maybe Rust (I haven’t tried it)
Also C3 is not a clone of C, it is an evolution, where the syntax is kept similar.
Saying that the syntax is not intuitive is a subjective topic, a lot of people (myself included) find C syntax much more intuitive than newer languages.
About Zig, I haven't tested it yet, but I want to experiment with it when I have time. And about Rust, I tried it, and, at least to me, it is even more confusing.
Anyway, I like to encourage people to try different languages, even if you go back to a classic or a newer one, the experience obtained thinking different for the problems, or even developing the language to tackle those problems is invaluable.