[giornogiovanna]

This doesn't sound like a very good example. Fn inherits FnMut inherits FnOnce, so a library should just ask for the freest one it can support. Usually that just falls out of the meaning of the function. For example, a callback should only be called once, so you ask for an FnOnce, or maybe some function will be called in parallel, so you ask for an Fn. And with Rc, RefCell, Arc, etc. a dynamic approach is also pretty well-supported.

[millstone]

Apple's APIs last for years, in some cases decades. In this world, properties like "this object can only have one reference" and "this function can only be called once" become arbitrary constraints on the future.

Think about instances where you've refactored a RefCell to an Rc or a FnOnce to a FnMut, and consider what it would be like if you were unable to make that change because it would break the interface. It would be profoundly limiting.