I don't understand why there is a need for linked lists. I'm reading about fast insert in the middle, but there are other ways to insert data quickly. Maybe it'

I don't understand why there is a need for linked lists. I'm reading about fast insert in the middle, but there are other ways to insert data quickly. Maybe it's a need on hardware with specific memory management? There are so many drawbacks to linked lists: cache incoherence, the use of pointers, no fast random access... The single fact that rust makes it hard to implement a linked list should show that this data structure is a bad idea. Even when the C++ author is saying it, that should be enough, no?