Comment by quotemstr

That's not the same as asserting that soundness requires adherence to the current fashion, sum types over results and errors. TIMTOWTDI.

You don't have to think C is sound or good to distinguish a disfavored API style from mathematical unsoundness. There are infinitely many type safe APIs and languages that are, despite their soundness, ugly and hard to use.

Let's not project every dimension along which a language can be good or bad onto the axis of safety.