It provides historical context. Someone coming from a gc langage that has never even had to learn what memory even is wrt to a program will not understand why a

It provides historical context. Someone coming from a gc langage that has never even had to learn what memory even is wrt to a program will not understand why a borrow checker is even a thing. You can get very far writing software without even being aware that your language is even doing something called garbage collection for you, or without even having a basic concept of memory being tied to values, sizes, etc. If you lack this context a borrow checker just seems like a pointless nuisance.