I like Rust mostly for its user-friendly tools. I dislike the compilation model. The type system I already liked even before Rust existed. So, not every String opinion on PL is down to Rust.
No, I just find discussions like these absolutely hilarious. A Go developer with ten years of experience convinces himself that Go is the gospel and generics are a useless toy and distraction from "real work™", then tries generics and they move from a feature you don't really need to a feature you couldn't possibly live without.
Same with every other thing that goes into this language. A thing that's been available elsewhere for literally 3-4 decades.