That is the main point of the article. It was a poor choice for what they used it for and most startups aren't writing system (or even desktop) software but are

That is the main point of the article. It was a poor choice for what they used it for and most startups aren't writing system (or even desktop) software but are building web apps. A CRUD/SaaS web team should only be using it for high performance areas with a few microservices. At least until the web side of Rust significantly matures (mostly in the people/community side not just code).