Can we refrain from strawmen? I haven't made any of the points you're harpooning and vehemently disagree with all of them.

What I said was that panics aren't always appropriate and the context to determine this doesn't exist at the language level.

I didn't say managing UB was easy and in fact I've argued diagnosing it is impossible directly with members of both language committees. I didn't say panics are never appropriate. They usually are appropriate. I didn't say I don't use rust because X, Y, Z. I write rust. Etc.

    There is no meaningful difference between a correctness bug and a panic triggering condition with the exception that the panic forces you to acknowledge the error during development, meaning it is more likely that the correctness bug gets caught in the first place.