You're not wrong, but that's a bit of an unfair comparison.

You're likely talking about work on custom memory allocators and impact on real time performance. In the hosted services domain this isn't so much an issue. Nobody's doing that in Java, and you likewise wouldn't care much if writing the same type of service in Rust.

Rust very much enables you to write high level, Java-style code. It's not bad code, nor is it difficult to write.