One tends to love things that make life easy. If you spend all your time debugging memory errors or concurrency problems then rust might seem wonderful for saving you from those problems.

I'm still learning it but it doesn't really seem very joyous when trying to accomplish simple things. I'm feeling nostalgic for C actually. I don't end up doing a lot of concurrency and memory handling is a discipline that can be greatly aided by running valgrind on my unit tests.

I find Python joyous and I don't love Javascript but I'd much rather write UI code in that than any compiled language.

I think that writing UIs in a compiled language can be a pleasant experience, but it requires that the language in question be designed to put an explicit heavy emphasis on ergonomics and devs landing on the happy path by default. Rust doesn't really fit that profile and prioritizes safety above all.

Rust certainly has an enthusiastic following, and I’m sure there will be contributors from within that circle, but that hype has little impact beyond that crowd. The chances that your random user who gets an itch to contribute has adequate Rust skills is not high.