I'm a C programmer. I don't know if I'd say it's a bad language, but I definitely hate it. I agree wholeheartedly with OP about the quality of life stuff.
I'm constantly amazed by what C will let you do. The footguns and lack of type checking. C compilers will link a function to a variable for instance. Don't forward declare your functions, and you might not even get a warning (yes some compilers don't give warnings by default for implicit functions). The linker will then go to the symbol table find anything that matches and place a function call. That's just one example, but they're many. C builds erroneous code.
I'm constantly amazed by what C will let you do. The footguns and lack of type checking. C compilers will link a function to a variable for instance. Don't forward declare your functions, and you might not even get a warning (yes some compilers don't give warnings by default for implicit functions). The linker will then go to the symbol table find anything that matches and place a function call. That's just one example, but they're many. C builds erroneous code.