What? Are you going to force them? People write C because it is convenient, productive, and popular enough to attract contributors and find tools. C has the best dynamic analysis and debugging tools of really any language.

You can think yourself superiour and turn up your nose, but the fact remains that many people have perfectly good reasons to write and maintain C. Your haughty commentary has no impact on that.

You may think that bounds checking is the answer to all situations, but if you're writing a realtime system, there's often no point in running the program if it can fail from an out of bounds read or write anyway. In a flight control system, or an ECU, there is often nothing productive about crashing. You need to verify your pointer logic, instead of hoping your program will crash.