For me it was the other way: I learned programming in C and I loved and that's it's "the bestest"
But my first work was in Delphi. I've grown a lot as a programmer exploring VCL, professional tools but I still thought that C and C++ are superior.
My second work was in C. I was happy.
But then .. I started to see that not everything so beatyful.
It was like meeting with a girl you had a crush as teenager but now .. she's just normal
You can do a lot in Pascal, and Delphi was an outstanding development environment for Windows app, but C is just so much more powerful.