The practical reality is arguably more important than beliefs. Apple has, as it turns out, invested in trying to make Swift more suitable for kernel and similar development, like trying to automate away reference counting when possible, and also offering Embedded Swift[0], an experimental subset of Swift with significant restrictions on what is allowed in the language. Maybe Embedded Swift will be great in the future, and it is true that Apple investing into that is significant, but it doesn't seem like it's there.

> Embedded Swift support is available in the Swift development snapshots.

And considering Apple made Embedded Swift, even Apple does not believe that regular Swift is suitable. Meaning that you're undeniably completely wrong.

[0]:

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/visio...