Agreed, this together with how they handled the redesign of the website left a sour taste in my mouth. Especially with the promised retrospective that has been promised for over a year now; there have been at least two posts on the internals forum about the followup but still nothing. It's frustrating, especially because both decisions felt like they were made in a vacuum without properly listening to the community; chiefly how the redesign suddenly was suddenly announced close to the 2018 edition release and a whole lot of the feedback and criticism has not yet been addressed. The website still does not have syntax highlighting [0] nor a snippet of Rust code on the frontpage [1], not to mention the lack of addressing the change in the pitch used on the frontpage (compared to the previous website [2]). The language itself is amazing and I love using it and, the community is awesome and I for the most part think the governance is great; but on some issues they have some catching up to do.

[0]: https://www.rust-lang.org/what/networking [1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/ [2]: https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/