I have worked Elixir/Erlang and Rust a lot, and I agree. Rust in particular gives ownership semantics to threaded/blocking/locking code, which I often times find _much_ easier to understand than a series of messages sent between tasks/processes in Elixir/Erlang.

However, in a world where you have to do concurrent blocking/locking code without the help of rigorous compiler-enforced ownership semantics, Elixir/Erlang is like water in the desert.