> Weighing the pros and cons of a particular language without specifying the use case and project requirements seems ass backwards to me.

Practically every company I talked with about Rust positions named very good reasons to move to it.

N=1 and all, yup, but your opinion is N=1 as well.

There are several very engineering-sound reasons to choose Rust and people are aware of them and are appealing to them when considering it.