I think we have the same opinion there.

Rusts verbosity (and thus, harder to read syntax) is there on purpose and it's nice you do not have to worry about a lot of things because the compiler does for you.

You are right with the updating part. I think what annoys me the most is that you often have to update (because you need feature x, just now released) and you will also get a new api. It feels (highly subjective here) as it is not yet so stable as in other languages.

I also scrolled over some commits from the UUID repo. You are right, the maintainers seem to be doing a good job publishing a good crate with great documentation and the required maintenance work.