Bottom line re GC in D

[Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 09:57:15 UTC, Oluca wrote:
> - No, it can't be disabled if you want to keep using "impressive
> features" of the language.

What do CTFE, mixins, Ds powerful template mechanism, immutable +
slices, sane operator overloading, opDispatch, alias this and
UFCS, RAII + scope statements to do with the GC?

> Long story short, if you prefer to manage your own god-damn
> memory manually, D isn't the way to go. No sir, you are stuck
> with an inefficient GC.
> They've been improving the GC for years,
> but it's still not good enough.

How does the quality of the GC even matter if you're not going to 
use it?