There are a lot of hardware engineers at my company that more or less occasionally use Python or C# to get their job done. I understand that those languages are the better choice for them and gladly help them with getting C bindings done for the odd library in our industry, and to understand some low level concepts such as CPU cache when they run into problems due to those.

I turned away from the C++ unity towards the Rust community because I saw the same issue as you, and am very happy about that decision.