I'm not discounting your experience, nor am I trying to devaluate the problem, but I think there are more than one reason why someone may ask "Why not Rust?".

I'm not discounting your experience, nor am I trying to devaluate the problem, but I think there are more than one reason why someone may ask "Why not Rust?". In my case, I sometimes ask it to learn about particular real or perceived shortcomings of Rust, which may be fixable. If I believe that Rust should address the problem, and someone chose not to use Rust (which is different from choosing to use Go!) I am curious as to what obstacle the person hit. We should tame the zealous members of our community, but don't cluster everyone into the same bucket :) Some of us are just trying to build a great ecosystem and that requires us to find blindspots and notice hard-to-observe-from-inside problems.