> Rust is a bit too awkward to use in many cases where C++ is used (particularly with unsafe Rust), and inherits some of the hyper-modern complexities/insanities of C++.

Unsafe Rust is harder to write than C++, or at very least, writing correct unsafe Rust is mandatory whereas it seems like C++ programmers are very sloppy and the same attitude will not deliver in unsafe Rust.

But the vast majority of software you're writing should be safe Rust, which is a much easier - the purpose of unsafe is to establish safe abstractions for your system and for a lot of use cases appropriate safe abstractions are already provided.

> Unnecessary "hyper-modern" C++ features which are dead on arrival (ranges)

Ranges is C++ catching up to where the rest of the world had already gone with ideas like "iterators" meanwhile. It's about as "hyper-modern" as the string_view or modules, both of which C++ was also very slow to get to.