I am more than happy if on Windows, C gets reduced to the subset required by ISO C++.
Time to move on, C was already outdated in the mid-90, versus C++ARM, Modula-2 and Object Pascal.
Microsoft Security center is quite clear on the damage it has brought to the industry.
Objectively false, given the consistent popularity of C.
Plus, of course, the bad things about C are also bad about C++, in that C++ is more similar to C than different from it.
C's copy paste compatibility in C++ is the Trojan horse that ended up being its security Achilles heel.
However even with that, the C++ community and ISO C++ actually care to improve the language security story.
The same cannot be told for ISO C.
Actually even Microsoft does more for it with its Checked C research and SAL security annotations.
Realistically the paying subset of users of a language is always going to be a small number of people.