I feel like every other crate I've run into claims to require nightly.

In reality, they often work perfectly fine on a reasonably-modern stable, and simply haven't updated their documentation and READMEs to indicate "oh yeah, this nightly feature is now in stable, so just use a stable that's newer than version so-and-so".

Please, if you see this, file an issue against the project, so we can clearly mark those crates as working on stable.

> most of them will work on stable in just a couple of weeks!

Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable compiler release.

> Plus you can easily switch between versions with rustup!

I don't think people are complaining because switching versions is hard. Just unnecessary, risky, and yes kind of annoying.

> Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable

This is false, most uses of nightly are because of macros, which will be stable in the next version of Rust.

> Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable compiler release.

Then use an older version of the package. Unless the package in question was relying on some "nightly" feature that never made it into stable, then you should be fine.