Thinking you are too smart leads to all sorts of trouble, like using C++ and being proud of it.
If you think your intelligence is a limited resource however you'll conserve it and not waste it on tools, process and the wrong sort of design.
Even if we decided to use Zig for everything, hiring for less popular languages like Zig, lua, or Rust is significantly harder. There are no developers with 20 years experience in Zig
"We're going to need to fit parts of this into very constrained architectures."
"Right, so we need a language that compiles directly to machine code with no runtime interpretation."
"Which one should we use?"
"What about Rust?"
"I know zero Rust developers."
"What about C++?"
"I know twenty C++ developers and am confident we can hire three of them tomorrow."
The calculus at the corporate level really isn't more complicated than that. And the thing about twenty C++ developers is that they're very good at using the tools to stamp the undefined behavior out of the system because they've been doing it their entire careers.
Sure C was a huge advance in portability but C and C++ represent a transitional form between an age where you could cleanly spec a special purpose language like COBOL or FORTRAN but not quite spec a general systems programming language and one in which you could. C++, thus, piles a huge amount of complexity on top of a foundation which is almost but not quite right.