"Actually memory management is easy, you just have to...."

- Every C programmer I've talked to

No its not, if it was that easy C wouldn't have this many memory related issues...

It may be easy to do memory management, but it's not too easy to detect if you've made a fatal mistake when such mistakes won't cause apparent defects

avoiding all memory management mistakes is not easy, and the bigger the codebase becomes, the more exponential the chance for disaster gets