This seems like a silly argument. By the same token, we can argue that Rust doesn’t think engineers can be trusted because it pushes a bunch of type and memory

This seems like a silly argument. By the same token, we can argue that Rust doesn’t think engineers can be trusted because it pushes a bunch of type and memory safety onto the compiler instead of letting the engineers manage it as their ancestors did. Of course, they were right to do so—we shouldn’t trust engineers with all of these tedious, error-prone processes. And while Rust solves for memory safety with borrow checking, that turns out to be a pretty limited solution from a productivity perspective (or at least that seems to be the majority opinion among people who have extensive experience with both languages) compared to borrow checkers—sometimes it’s appropriate to trade productivity for performance/correctness, but many times it isn’t.