And no, we didn't have major issues with memory leaks either. About on par with what I have seen in garbage collected languages. RAII works quite good most of the time.
I get how that would be characterized as "trivially fixable", but I assure you that this is not the kind of projects people complain about when they discuss memory safety issues.
Consider that some people need to send emails to vendor companies begging them to stop segfaulting, writing the stack or leaking memory. You're lucky if it gets fixed in a few months, because that means you wouldn't have to seek alternatives which would be even more time consuming. In conclusion, there are many people out there dealing with memory safety issues which are anything but "trivially fixable".