> Who, exactly?

I'm on your side of this, but there are Rust zealots out there and they're incredibly annoying.

(Edit to add:)

As a longtime Java guy (after a decade or so as a C++ guy) what drew me to Rust wasn't actually memory safety; that was table-stakes for me and Go might have lured me in if that was all I wanted. The low-cost (cognitive complexity is a cost) of memory safety was a factor, but it was the expressive type system that sealed the deal.