> I think the point is that folks will incrementally move their code towards having all profiles enabled, and that's sort of fundamental if the goal is to give folks with C++ codebases an incremental path to safety.

I doubt it, because the reason I favoured C++ over C back in 1993, was the safety culture, as someone coming from Turbo Pascal.

Somehow this has been deteriorating since 2000, as C++ kept getting C refugees that would rather keep using C, but work required C++ now.

Most of the hardening capabilities that are being added now, were already part of the compiler frameworks during the 1990's, e.g. Turbo Vision, OWL, MFC, CSet++, MFC, MacApp, PowerPlant,...