It was definitely an interesting way to allocate pointers. I did once have a very large project where devs didnt understand this and resolved hundreds or more off by one and memory overwrites in C due to this feature.

But at the same time, I think blaming the software was kind of a cop out. Devs were in a hurry and simply didnt respect the rules. Given todays software engineer at large. Nerfing programming languages so they cant destroy things might not be a bad idea. But AI will nerf everything.