whats wrong with c++?

it has namespaces, better standard libraries, a plethora of modern conveniences, and all of c's functionality.

if you don't like objects don't use them

if you want to feel like a programming badass and do everything low level then learn assembly

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>Yes but how do you know that what you assemble with your now safe assembler is safe? Besides optimization isn't exactly what Annex K is all about, you should check it out.
that might be true in embedded software where code rarely goes past a few hundred lines. But in large scale code thousands of line long, there is no way you can organise code flow just by stepping through it in a debugger. All the speed gains of asm are lost because there is no way humanly possible that a programmer can optimise code at a high level like a compiler can.