Many of those people have experience writing systems programming code before UNIX and C got widespread outside Bell Labs.

Mac OS was originally written in Object Pascal + Assembly, just to cite one example from several.

Nice deflection, but you still didn’t answer the question.

Have you ever written in a memory safe language like you’re telling others to do?

Yes, my dear, plenty of times since 1986.

Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, Modula-2, Ada, Oberon, ...

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My primary language is JavaScript, but I use Rust when I need to write more low-level (or higher performance) code. I certainly haven't been writing kernel code or anything like that, but I think it's fair to say that I practice what I preach when it comes to using memory safe languages.