It's easy to interpret these arguments as "C sucks, let's use Rust" instead of "C is a very mature language with enormously complicated code-bases in play running mission critical software which is not trivially replaced by something like Rust but which could stand to benefit from building things into the compiler to check for mistakes like the Rust compiler does."

Compiling C code is easy, but auditing C code is hard. Getting Rust code to compile without getting berated about every little thing is hard, but at least you're confident then you've got everything right.