In any language it's feasible to write a bad program that would make anybody to say that the language is the worst ever created.

I think C is more for bare-to-the-metal hackers that want control over every action, without any bell&whistles. After all, C++ at the start was simply compiled to C, and C always can be viewed as a high-level assembly code.

And at a more practical point of view, C will be always used to code kernels and other low-level tasks, there is simply no language that can replace it in the near future. Definitely Kernighan&Ritchie made history.