Yet they seemingly don’t mind that it practically guarantees them to make blunders over and over again.
In contrast, the last company I worked for did everything in typescript and the amount of problems caused by code that blocked the main event loop was staggering. And at that, our best JavaScript people generally just threw up their arms saying there wasn't a good way to fix it.
Between the two, I prefer a language that lets me fix problems.
But then again I only know because I love that shit and started out in c/embedded, c# etc. And on my own weak side I fucken suuuuck at frontend related stuff (not the design stuff at all, just...fuck you css).
These days most of the sensible people have moved from C++ to Rust and so the "serious C++ folks" are an entirely different distribution of people who are much more inclined to think memory safety isn't a big deal and you just have to not make mistakes.
Wrong. There are more than 16 million C++ developers worldwide.