My experience has been the opposite. I came from Python and Typescript and the initial amount of reading and fighting with the compiler was very frustrating but I understood one thing that sets Rust apart - I write code with almost the same level of bugs as a seasoned Rust developer. That is a win for years to come as team grows and software gets old. I will bet on it again and again.

Now I mostly generate code with coding agents and almost everything I create is Rust based - web backend to desktop app. Let the LLM/agent fight with the compiler.