This feels exactly like why Microsoft (and others) during the 90s started to define a well-defined subset of C, with some fancy IDL stuff, and a C-like ABI where all the C stuff needed could also be generated from the IDL, as standard somewhat-object-oriented interfaces like COM and other DCE RPC-likes.

Of course, the POSIX-likes never adopted this, whereas Microsoft nowadays has some fourth generation of this IDL stuff (WinMD) that they are also slowly porting all the old C API definitions to (see win32metadata, also used for defining stuff like the Win32 package for Rust).

Also, of course, this all has its own issues too, for one COM's definition of reference counting is a bit picky, and there were a lot of advanced 'implicit RPC' features that were also more inherent footguns, but at least it doesn't involve what is ranted about here.. mostly.