I don't see it as a negative, really, just realistic. It is a fact that everyone makes mistakes, and with the inherent complexity and features that are demanded

I don't see it as a negative, really, just realistic. It is a fact that everyone makes mistakes, and with the inherent complexity and features that are demanded of modern software, it is harder and harder to maintain a comprehensive understanding of a codebase so that you can detect these mistakes before they cause damage. This means that even if you are a perfect developer, you need to expend a lot of energy to maintain that perfection if you're using tools that don't help you. To me, modern tools like Rust are supposed to relieve part of the burden. In the common case, if I can be reasonably certain that I can't make certain classes of errors, my brainpower is freed to focus on other things and I can work with significatly less stress. Rust is interesting because it allows you worry less without actually compromising much in capability. In the cases where I would need to be able to bypass the tooling, it is explicitly possible.