> The phenomenon I notice in languages that do have it, is the majority of uses cases seem to be a pattern match with two outcomes, one a Some() and the other a None(). It really seems like a more annoying way to write if {} else {}.

In Rust you write this type of thing as:

  if let Some(name) = order.get_name() {
   println!("Order ready for {name}!");
  } else {
   println!("Order number {} ready!", order.num());
  }

So, it's a destructuring pattern match just written as an if-else. Because we did the match here, we can't forget and end up using name when there wasn't one, the variable only exists when it's bound.