I've spent enough time writing C to know that I want to minimize my time spent writing C. It's been an important language to know for dealing with foreign function interfaces, but I work almost exclusively in high-level, memory safe languages now. I'm much happier and my programs are much less vulnerable to exploitation.

I think C is pleasing because the program does nothing that you don't explicitly tell it to do, and because just about everything that you can tell it to do maps clean(ish)ly down to the machine language that implements the equivalent code. It's possible to know exactly what's going on, and when.