Actually hot take: Modern C++ is less safe than classic C++, which is less safe than C.
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Are you including those who use rules to ban certain old, unsafe practices? Or is the argument "it's (almost) a strict superset thus anything unsafe + existing thing is more unsafe than existing thing"?
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It’s because more advanced C++ features, such as lambdas and references, also add more ways to get use after free.
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Ah okay... although I disagree with references. I can't think how passing a reference is any less safe than passing a raw pointer, although that could be a hole in my knowledge. Explain?
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Passing by reference is implicit at the calling site instead of explicit.