Yes, Rust's strictness makes it a lot more maintainable. It is so much more common that changing the one thing you wanted to change results in a compiler error

Yes, Rust's strictness makes it a lot more maintainable. It is so much more common that changing the one thing you wanted to change results in a compiler error at every single other site you need to change, without having to look at other areas of the codebase at all, and all the tests pass on the first try.