True. But GC takes too much control. Using Pythons as an example, first all is well, but then you need to turn it off selectively and have to learn first the whole concept of (reference-counting) GC and then augment it with a new concept of weak references. (Which are not just objects without GC, they are objects with more complex GC routines.)

A thing appears simple when it allows you to make distinctions you care about and avoid making distinctions you do not care about. C is weak with the latter, but Python with the former.