The added features and complexity of Rust may be a worthwhile tradeoff for the memory safety it provides compared to C. You're allowing a lot of mental overhead

The added features and complexity of Rust may be a worthwhile tradeoff for the memory safety it provides compared to C. You're allowing a lot of mental overhead of "is this safe?" to be offloaded to the compiler, whereas with C you have to be extremely vigilant. Even the most talented programmers frequently make memory-related mistakes in C. If you want a truly simple language you should have a look at Go.