Idk if you'd call it syntax or what, but what makes Rust pedantic is that you're always worrying about lifetimes, types, explicit errors (as opposed to exceptions), and other things you mostly don't think about in JS or Py. Same as with C++ or other languages of that nature. Rust holds your hand more and is just better than C++ in general, but you still have to tell the compiler precisely what you're doing.

To answer your question, yes. This is also what I try to hint people at work who scoff at JS and refuse to move past "real programmer" languages, most of their talent is replaceable by GPT.