Code aesthetic appreciation is a temporal matter. Something that looks ugly initially might feel natural and sound later. This happened a lot to me while learning Rust.

Rust has to be learned, true, but once the initial learning phase is done, those syntaxes start making sense and become part of the value rather than the cost.

I would recommend putting personal aesthetic preferences aside while learning and reassessing them later.

Also, I hope the article's point was not lost. It took me too long to get it, but I am glad I did before I wrote my first comment on Reddit a few days ago.