And some people call themselves engineers after a bootcamp, instead of actually earning a Software Engineering accreditation.

"C Is Not a Low-level Language Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

Naturally those people will also vouch that an article on the ACM, written by a one of the GCC Objective-C and GNUStep early contributors, and nowadays key researcher on CHERI project isn't something to take into consideration.