Not saying that Rust is necessarily easy to pick up, but hundreds of thousands of people use Rust without a PhD in any subject.

Try and appreciate the humor in what you're replying to without fully discounting the point of it.

It is of course an exaggeration, but that's what is somewhat annoying to me. But dismissing this point by just saying me "get better" after literally years of using Rust is a bit of a weak point, or am i in the wrong here?

And it's not even that i dislike the language, but this is evangelism to just dismiss the point of my argument with "skill issue". A tool isn't supposed to be difficult, it should help you in whatever you're trying to achieve, not making it more difficult.