I see your point. It would be nice if a C-style cast behaved like a static_cast in C++, but that's not possible because of backwards compatibility. At least with GCC/Clang you can disable C-style casts altogether with '-Werror=old-style-cast'. (Maybe there is a similar option for MSVC.)
Yes, this is something that would need a new language edition to properly fix. Compiler vendors could split -Wold-style-cast into separate warnings for static_cast and other usage though so that you can only ban one of them.
