alt Hacker NewsRust is quite complicated but people like it a lot. Python too in a way - it's quite large and complicated but it exposes the complexity in a very gradual way and you can ignore so much of the language and still get things done.
I agree with you about simple languages though. I really like Go - the "there should be only one way to do things" from the Zen of Python actually applies to Go in a way that it doesn't apply to Python at all.
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This is just how I've felt writing both Rust and C++. Rust's language complexity often feels like it's there so that I don't have to think about so much complexity when interfacing with the code, whereas C++'s language complexity introduces footgun after footgun and I have to think very carefully about what everything could possibly do (e.g. if destructors even get run in certain instances when I'd expect them to).
Languages like Go, is how you end up with what appears simple on the surface, while in reality is full of gotchas and boilerplate for what complex languages support out of the box.
That is how you get double nils, exception handling that pretends not to be one, url based imports that requires source code and rewrites when the host changes, generators by code patterns, generics that miss some language constructs,....