The same was said about assembly when C was first being used professionally for microcomputer development. C was too slow, it didn't give the programmer enough control, how can you possibly get stuff done without having full access to the computer's registers, what if you wanted to use processor-specific instructions, etc?

People got over it. Many of the complaints are actually true - there are some domains where you still need to use assembly. But people figure they'll just use C for the main program and toss the assembly stuff in special subroutines in the arch/ subdirectory, and forget about it for the 99% of the time it doesn't matter.