Yeah it’s a weird take. The hard part about learning rust is borrow semantics and understanding the kinds of architectures the compiler will and won’t allow.
Well maybe it's just me, but the borrow semantics were never all that bad. Of course there were things that needed to be relearnt, but it's not all that bad all things considered.
Coming from C, the borrow semantics are basically what I try to get anyway, violating them only with suspicion and great care. Rust just makes it easy to check that I didn't screw up what I was already trying to do.