That's the point. As a rule of thumb, fine-grained ownership is a very bad idea. It makes your program into a mess, which will be slow and make your program hard to understand. The slow part applies in any case, whether you have to suffer it in code (as you do with C) or not (as in many other languages that allow you to make even more of a mess).
As a C programmer, I try to avoid tracking ownership in separate struct member fields. I try to make central data structures that keep care of the tracking. Cleaning up shouldn't happen pointer-by-pointer. Usually a much bigger context has a shared lifetime, so there is no point in splitting stuff up in individually tracked "objects". Instead you just track a bigger block of memory.
As a C programmer, I try to avoid tracking ownership in separate struct member fields. I try to make central data structures that keep care of the tracking. Cleaning up shouldn't happen pointer-by-pointer. Usually a much bigger context has a shared lifetime, so there is no point in splitting stuff up in individually tracked "objects". Instead you just track a bigger block of memory.