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

I find it quite amusing that so many C-fans believe they're working with arrays, when all they have is some dangerous syntactic sugar for memory manipulation and pointer "arithmetic." Can you say: "unsafe", "core dumped" and "segmentation fault"? If you can, and you still work with it, it's "your fault."