Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ developers

Learning Rust, like any other language, is a strategic investment that pays off with experience. Companies that are willing to invest, benefit accordingly.

Evidently, several companies that care about memory safety and programmer productivity have invested and benefited from Rust.

Finally: this is subjective of course but the borrow checker isn't something that necessarily needs fighting 'for a month or two'. There's just so many excellent resources available now that learning how to deal with it is quite tractable.