This is indeed an important cultural trait in the Rust community. This can bring challenge when integrating Rust code into a context with more ambiguity.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

This is good advice. Going for something extremely small first is a good way to on board in a new project.

Or why the focus on fact checking is doomed to fail. You can't ignore our biases, the social context, and above all the toxic architecture of the big social medias.

New packaging ecosystems bring their new attack vectors. This is definitely a teething problem which will need to be addressed soon.