I never read it like that at all.
To me it says be mindful when allocating memory. This is no more effort than having to manually allocate and free memory, but also has the convenience and safety of a GC to fall back on.
To me it says be mindful when allocating memory. This is no more effort than having to manually allocate and free memory, but also has the convenience and safety of a GC to fall back on.
When you write code you need to care about your allocations, whether you have a GC or not.
When you write code without a GC you need to be mindful of freeing memory. With a GC you do not.
So the GC relieves part of the burden of memory management, and that part is often the hardest part (particularly in concurrent systems).