I don't like this analogy as much as you because it misses a hundred years of industrial innovation that took the bike from a novelty to the most common form of

I don't like this analogy as much as you because it misses a hundred years of industrial innovation that took the bike from a novelty to the most common form of assisted transportation on the planet. Rust isn't the bike, it's the factory that was built with the best manufacturing techniques from dozens of other factories combined into one. A bike (the software you're trying to make) is still a bike no matter who makes it but this new factory can make them safer, faster, and cheaper.