It's like saying that we ideally shouldn't have cars that can drive full speed into a wall, or at least that these cars shouldn't be the cars that most people use. And indeed modern cars will generally at least attempt to break before they hit a wall. It seems not too fanciful to think that in another 10 years we will have cars that can reliably prevent themselves from being driven into walls.

Our tech with regard to type and memory safety is more advanced than our car tech: we already have the tech to prevent these errors. And I believe we should be using it wherever possible. Obviously there will be exceptions (the more obvious being legacy codebases), but they should be exceptions.