You don't have to do any of that in your code. All the main compiled languages (or at least C++, Java, and C#) are all getting features roughly equivalent to what think is difficult in Rust: closures, functional pipelines, option types, pattern matching, and the like.

Sure, you've got to know about Option and Result to do anything with Rust, but you've got to know about exceptions and null pointers in the rest of those languages. But you can write coherent Rust using for loops everywhere instead of stupid closure tricks.