The "community" you're paying attention to is made up of enthusiasts, so it's to be expected that they tend to be in the camp of adopting new shiny things as so

The "community" you're paying attention to is made up of enthusiasts, so it's to be expected that they tend to be in the camp of adopting new shiny things as soon as they're released. The same thing happens in C++; you'll often see reddit / stackoverflow telling you to stop using new/delete in favor of make_shared and make_unique, stop using loops in favor of functions from `<algorithm>`, and so on. Regardless of whether the new additions make the language better or not (I believe they do, in both Rust's and C++'s case), adopting them immediately in the codebases you are responsible for is your decision. You have to decide by yourself whether the pros from adopting the changes are enough to offset the cons of making changes. If you conclude that the cons outweigh the pros, and if it bothers you that the "community" derides you for not tweaking your code, then a valid solution is to stop paying attention to the "community" and get on with your life.