All true, but on the other hand you have much more dangerous (because hidden) memory corruption problems in C++ caused by hidden dynamic memory management in the C++ stdlib like iterator invalidation, or dangling std::string_views. And IMHO those cases where C++ suddenly pulls the rug from under your references are much more dangerous than working with a static memory layout in C.

The C stdlib string API is rubbish of course (along with most other C stdlib APIs). But at least it's quite simple in C to ignore the stdlib (and use better 3rd-party-libs instead) without loosing important language features.