I’m a full time C++ developer, mostly doing high performance data processing and some visualization and TUI tools, and as someone loving C++, it’s not as simple as you frame it. In sufficiently complex code you still have to deal with these problems. Rust has some good mechanisms in place to avoid these and there are things on the way for c++26 though.

No, because forking a distro and updating some hundred thousands of PCs is not done in a week.

Edit: and why would we go with Ubuntu…

Living under a rock eh?