This kind of comment is not helpful at all, I use Rust today however, yet I cannot sometimes deny, it's better to use C depending on the target and restrictions by hardware compilers.
Every language has downsides/upsides and time. There is a nice quote by Titus Winters: “Engineering is programming integrated over time”[0], this helped me a lot in learning that context matter for tools/languages/frameworks, and you can learn with their mistakes.
I don't think we have any proposals for language-supported tagged unions (have to do them yourself), tuples (write your own macro/struct), or pattern matching (lole).
You'll have a hard time pushing for those: C will likely never get them in those forms. At least, not for another 10-20 years, since there's no existing C compiler that implements any of those things yet.
If you want a better C, do yourself a favor and use D
Same syntax, more secure and with modules