Really appreciate a fairminded Rust person chiming in. It's a disservice to the language (which is cool!), and it makes the community look bad.

Rust might gain some adoption among people who are new to high performance software and see a narrative that its the only game in town, but it turns off a lot of older folks like myself who know it isn't and that community matters.

gl to you and people like you trying to get it back on track!