I mostly agree, but I think I would have read the comment differently. I've seen C++ people have a strong distaste towards Rust for various reasons and don't exactly care too much about the "memory safety" part. Which is... unfortunate. So while it might be "beating a dead horse", the horse isn't even dead.
In fairness, a shitton of these issues would be solved by following C++ patterns like RAII, instead of the defer/gotos style the kernel seems to be proud of.
