Yes, you're correct about me. :-)

I think it is really as simple as this: change is hard and a lot of people struggle with it to varying degrees for different reasons. Just look around at the people in your life and how they react to changes. It's really the same sort of pattern that plays out with Rust.

I distinctly remember reading the comments in the thread here about the initial release of ripgrep, and I remember coming away with a strong impression not just of your technical skill (which was apparent even before reading the thread), but just how pragmatic your viewpoint was. I didn't get the feeling you had any desire to displace anything, but just to solve a specific problem for people who wanted it, and if some people preferred not to use it, that was fine too! As someone who was fairly early on in my software career then, it was an extremely valuable lesson in humility from someone with a pedigree that I presumably wouldn't ever match.

Your reappearance here after my mention is probably another useful lesson for me to have a bit more empathy for those who are reacting more strongly to this announcement than I'd otherwise understand.