I can't help how you feel about it, but what I see is people who supposedly "don't want" something to happen and yet take little or no concrete action to prevent it. When it comes to their memory safety problem WG21 talks about how they want to address the problem but won't take appropriate steps. Years of conference talks about safety, and C++ 26 is going to... encourage tool vendors to diagnose some common mistakes. Safe C++ was rejected, and indeed Herb had WG21 write a new "standing rule" which imagines into existence principles for the language that in effect forbid any such change.

Think Republican Senators offering thoughts and prayers after a school shooting, rather than Apartheid era white South Africans.