Force and politics are how you get shit done when people's minds are closed to virtue. Another example is the climate: we've had decades to solve the climate crisis voluntarily, and people did relatively nothing. Now it will take drastic measures to prevent the crisis from becoming a catastrophe, and believe me, governments WILL implement these measures to much hemming and hawing from the public, especially Americans. But it will happen because it has to, and the public twiddled their thumbs back when solutions were relatively easy.
Same with software. If you write critical infrastructure and are not actively involved in writing it in a memory-safe manner at the language level, then you are complicit in every hack that involves a buffer overflow, UAF, or other boondoggle inherent to C and C++ programming. C is the internal combustion engine of software: we've known about its dangers for decades but done nothing to fix it, and now the crisis has reached the point of catastrophe and we have to use coercion or shame in order to fix it.
Same with software. If you write critical infrastructure and are not actively involved in writing it in a memory-safe manner at the language level, then you are complicit in every hack that involves a buffer overflow, UAF, or other boondoggle inherent to C and C++ programming. C is the internal combustion engine of software: we've known about its dangers for decades but done nothing to fix it, and now the crisis has reached the point of catastrophe and we have to use coercion or shame in order to fix it.