This! The hardest part of making software is making something that works for people. What I love about C++ is multi-paradigm programming. I can express my ideas directly using the appropriate paradigms. Regarding safety, with modern C++ programming, it's not hard to write software that's correct. Safety is often never the first thing I worry about.

If having strict safety means I can't express my mental models in code, I don't want it. It will slow me down. It will make it harder to write software that's useful.

Remember people, we are here to make things that are useful to people. If safety gets in the way of that, then it's not worth it.