I'm sure that I'm not surprising you when I say that there are members of the Rust community, paid and otherwise, who brigade forums, like this one. You probably know a few by name.

I don't think "the people have spoken, and they want Rust!" I think you have a small number of very obsessive people who treat a programming language's popularity of all things as a crusade. JetBrains publishes the data from their developer surveys, and you can see the last one that very few people use Rust at all, and of those, very few, less than 1 in 8, have ever used it for actual work. If you look at surveys from previous years, you can see very little user retention. Why does nobody keep using the most-loved lang for more than a year?

Because it's just a sham, like how a decade ago everyone was 'learning' Haskell and writing blogs about Monads and how FP was the secret sauce for their next-big-thing. It's exhausting. We've had non-stop but-what-about-Rust since, what, 2011?

This horse is dead.