I for one liked the illustrations, just think they were a bit large compared to the text. Maybe fewer would be good, but I liked the Rust-crab theme.

The balloon one is a bit busy and I didn't find it to have much explanatory value in that context.

IMO the images should be blue, and the number of them should be divisible by three. One of them should be of an otter.

Edit: Aside from that, as a Rust neophyte I did like the content.

This is an interesting phenomenon, how some people focus on the design of the page rather than the content. We see it quite regularly on HN related to blog post such as this. One wonders if the sibling commentors here have ever heard of "bike shedding"?

I personally appreciate the content, so thanks for that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

I'm curious, can you explain how an image of some kind of crab plushy toy that takes up THE ENTIRE SCREEN ON A DESKTOP helps illustrate anything about immutable references? It is fully 2x larger than the previous text and I have to scroll multiple times to get to the remainder of the article.

Is it that you used a child sharing their toy as a way to explain the concept, and you needed to remind us what a toy was?

I am sorry, but they made me quit the article without reading the content. However, I really liked all illustrations :)

There are too many for the amount of text. So you have two paragraphs, and then an image the size of five paragraphs. Then two more paragraphs, and another 5-paragraph image.

They are also somewhat inconsistent as to where they appear.

You can remove all but one or two, and the article won't be any worse :)

I think for some of it you could be nide to do diagrams, e.g. something like this: https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow