Yeah, for application code in my experience the more I stick to the dumb way to do it the less I fight the borrow checker along with fewer trait issues.

Refactoring seems to take about the same time too so no loss on that front. After all is said and done I'm just left with various logic bugs to fix which is par for the course (at least for me) and a sense of wondering if I actually did everything properly.

I suppose maybe two years from now we'll have people that suggest avoiding generics and tempering macro usage. These days most people have heard the advice about not stressing over cloning and unwraping (though expect is much better imo) on the first pass more or less.

Something something shiny tool syndrome?

>Compilation speed of code just doesn’t seem to be a priority in general with the community.

they have only one priority, memory safety (from a certain class of memory bugs)