I expect there's already been a lot of evaporative cooling in the C community and there will only be more over time. Increasingly the people who are going to be left in the C community are precisely those people who think C is generally OK. Anyone who has developed a high degree of fear of C is ever-increasingly doing what it takes to move away.

I have tried to phrase this neutrally, as to not be a comment about whether or not C "really is" generally OK. I am not sure I have 100% succeeded, as I have my opinions. But the point stands regardless; the people in the C community are generally going to be the ones who are OK with C.