I've (unfortunately) written plenty of "safety critical" code professionally and coding standards definitely have a negative effect overall. The thing keeping planes from falling out of the sky is careful design, which in practice means fail-safes, watchdogs, redundancy, and most-importantly, requirements that aren't overly ambitious.

While maybe 10% of rules are sensible, these sensible rules also tend to be blindingly obvious, or at least table stakes on embedded systems (e.g. don't try to allocate on a system which probably doesn't have a full libc in the first place).

Many coding standards rules have nothing to do with correctness and everything to do with things like readability and reducing cognitive load (“which style should I use here?”)