I have been guilty of this if only in school. A class assignment could be completed in java or c and I knew c++ and c and my teammates knew c. I really wanted to do oop because I was ignorant, but none of us knew java so we did OO in c. It was horrible. I like the simplicity of c. I wish there was a zig that was immutable by default, and had a borrowchecker, but I think that road inevitably leads to a GC jitted language or to something as complicated as rust. Well almost as complicated, at least macros would still be written in the same syntax as normal runtime code.