Well, yes. I'm not anywhere near as smart as the people writing Java or bash. That is why I want a computer to be smart for me. If they can't get things right in an unsafe language, what hope do I have?

We have powerful computers these days. Software is eating the world. Let it eat the process of writing correct software, too.

No one's saying this will eliminate all problems. Just the vast majority of remote execution bugs in widely-used codebases seem to be related to memory corruption. I examined all of MS's security notices for a couple of years, and the number of critical notices that'd be eliminated with memory safety was well over 90%. Mozilla says the same is true of Firefox.