Counter-counter point: if you're going to actively avoid using the majority of a language's features and for the most part write code in it as if it were a different language, doesn't that suggest the language is deeply flawed?

(Note: I'm not saying it is deeply flawed, just that this particular way of using it suggests so).

I wouldn't necessarily put it like that no. I'd say all languages have features that fit certain situations but should be avoided in other situations.

It's like a well equiped workshop, just because you have access to a chainsaw but do not need to use it to build a table does not mean it's a bad workshop.

C is very barebones, languages like C++. C#, Rust and so on are not. Just because you don't need all of it's features does not make those languages inherently bad.

Great question or in this case counter-counter point though.