> if you're a casual user (ie you don't follow the development) don't try incomplete APIs that not even the creators of fully know how they are supposed to work

From what I can tell pretty much everything can be broken at any point in time. So really the only actual advise here is not to use the language at all which is not reasonable.

> llms don't help when trying to make sense of the above

That has not been my experience. LLMs were what enabled me to upgrade to 0.16 experimentally at all.

> If you want to try new features before they land in a tagged release, you must engage with the development process at the very least.

No, that is unnecessary gatekeeping. 0.16 will become stable at one point and I don't want to wait until then to figure out what will happen. That's not how I used Rust when it was early (I always also tried nightlies) and that line of thinking just generally does not make any sense to me.

The reality is that Zig has very little desire to stabilize at the moment.