Well picking an invalid example (C encourages the use of linked lists in situations where they aren't a good idea) and a very questionable example (automatic conversions between different SAO/AOS representations are not mostly at an experimental stage but are an important feature for performance programming in 2022) is not a good way to support a claim that isn't empirically evident.

It's empirically evident in that no-one is picking C for new projects anymore.

Anything fast is in C++ or C++ like languages.