The reason I use Rust is because I can bypass all this messy business altogether and have my sensible patterns wrapped in a usable syntax and enforced by the compiler out of the box.

Whenever people say "just follow these rules" I read "just add this extra mental burden and do not slip up". Computers were invented to automate things. Rust automates ownership and borrowing rules. Suggestions like "do not forget to initialize unique_ptr with something" are not intelligent solutions.