Not really. Many other mainstream languages give you memory safety, strict type systems and overall robustness without having to deal with memory management or low-level details.

Even for parallelism this holds true. I would say it is even more pronounced there, in fact. Some high-level languages even come with simple, effective ways of doing parallelism without multithreading, which simplifies problems a lot.

Of course, they may not reach the top performance that C++ or Rust might, but that is the trade off. Performance vs. development cost.