For example "In fact, Swift treats enums as more than just types and lets you put methods directly on it" seems to assume that "just types" don't have methods, which I guess is what you might assume coming from say, C++ but Rust isn't C++ and so of course all of its types, including not only user-defined enums, structures and indeed unions can have methods - but also the built-in primitive types all have methods too.
'F'.to_digit(16).unwrap() // is the 32-bit unsigned integer constant 15
Or maybe an even closer to the metal example: Rust's pointer provenance APIs get to provide a method on raw pointers which takes a closure to do stuff like hide boolean flag bits at the bottom of an aligned pointer. The fact that you're ultimately going to lower to an XOR on a CPU address register doesn't mean you shouldn't get method syntax, it's the 21st century.