I think the Rust devs like C++'s abstraction level. Rust is about the same (more modern), it just catches your errors. I don't think it's possible to make Rust as ergonomic as Python, but I do think it's possible to move a little in that direction without losing Rust's strengths.
Actually that is the goal of the other languages, Swift, Haskell, OCaml, ParaSail...
Influenced by Rust's success bringing affine types into mainstream.
To keep using automatic memory management as their default way of managing memory, while offering some escape hatches based on affine types for low level optimizations.
