Sure - look i'm not gonna argue about C++ memory safety - i've funded and spent time trying to ensure we are funding figuring out how to get off of C++.
I just assume C++ code is unsafe, because it's really really hard to make it safe.
However, at the same time, the privilege escalation issues would have happened in any language - if you don't implement the check, you don't implement the check.
(and you could make it equally automatic in most languages)
