I would feel the opposite. I dare not write a program in C. The mentality of RAII and destructors for resource management is so ingrained that attempting to track resource use and lifetime in C would be nightmarish.

The problem with C are the parts that C++ already provides an alternative, regarding bounds checking, generic code with preprocessor tricks or now that _Generic thingie, stronger typed enumerations, heap allocations without sizeof math, automatic resource cleanups.

So use a minimal approach to C++.