It's fine to give a different viewpoint, but it's surprisingly common that whenever someone says anything bad about Rust, a Rust user comes in to say that they just haven't used it enough.
It's like saying "If you don't like my favorite movie, you just haven't watched it enough."
And if you wanna go fast instead of writing maintainable code you surely can with stuff like unwrap(), clone(), Copy.
In a way I think most people expect to pick up Rust more easily because they have expertise in other languages and are surprised when Rust feels like learning to code again, basically turning some ingrained assumptions upside down.
It really is not the kind of language where you can glaze over the introduction chapter and churn a TODO app in the same afternoon in my opinion.
That's a good approach to learning the language, but it breaks down as soon as async comes into the picture. It's basically impossible to be fluent writing async rust without a very healthy understanding of complex types, how the borrow checker works passing things across closures, etc.
It took you average movie time to learn whole entirety of language? Wow!
And without sarcasm, yes, sometimes it is the case.