One thing I've found with rust is that you struggle struggle struggle trying to do a simple task, and then finally someone says "Oh, all you need to do is this".

Rust has already reached the point where it leaves the world behind. Only the people who have been there since the early days really understand it, and getting into rust gets harder and harder as time goes on.

Yes, there's some awesome documentation, and the error messaging has gotten a lot better. But the power and flexibility of Rust comes at the cost of it becoming harder and harder to figure out how all the thousands of little pieces are supposed to fit together. What's really needed is a kind of "cookbook" documentation that has things like "How to read a text file with proper error handling" and "what is the proper way to pass certain kinds of data around and why".

Right now there's a lot of "what" documentation going around, but little that discusses the "how to and why".