> There's no world where Rust is more unsafe than C though so it's all academic

I think Rust is more unsafe than C due to supply chain issues in the Rust ecosystem, which have not fully materialized yet. Rust certainly has an advantage in terms of memory safety, but I do not believe it is nearly as big as people like to believe compared to a C project that actually cares about memory safety and applies modern tooling to address safety. There seems to be a lot of confirmation bias. I also believe Rust is much safer for average coders doing average projects by being much safer by default.