I even like Rust, a lot. I really love things like how you actively need to make things mutable. I wish that was a standard feature in any language I work with. But it's just so verbose.
Not the person you responded to but yes. I have written a lot of production software in Python. I remember going developing APIs with Python and the day we switched to using Typescript all these bugs we used to have just disappeared. Going from Typescript to Rust was not as big a change but well designed statically typed languages are a productivity booster not killer.
We can agree to disagree but I've personally experienced a large Python codebase at a Unicorn tech startup and I'd like to never experience it again.
I've been exposed to Python through work, but I was never a fan. Backwhen I was faced with learning Ruby or Python, I picked Ruby; just felt more ergonomic. I even prefer more recent versions of TypeScript to Python too. I never really felt productive in Python, since the language is very finnicky (I would say more so than JS).
Rust might be verbose in parts of the language (but I don't find it as verbose as C or C++), but you get a lot of goodies the the price of a bit of verbosity. So, I don't mind it
I think it's worse than C. That being said, I'm probably also biased in a way where I'm more forgiving to C++ than to Rust because C++ is old and Rust is new. What I found when I was working with Rust was that I wished you'd write it like you write Go. As for Go I quite quickly wished it worked like Rust. So I guess you can't win with me?
These days we mainly use Typescript because it's useful to mainly use a single language in small teams since it allows the one frontend guy to go on vacations without a laptop. We still do some C#, some C and some Rust + the Python which runs our ML/AI/BI parts since that's what those people work with in my area of the world.
It's likely that they just haven't got to the point in their programming where they understand the need for the things Rust solves. Like if you only ever write 100 line Python scripts you probably haven't run into the performance issues or difficulties that come with working on large dynamically typed codebases.
Have you tried "sticking" with it for a while? Try forcing yoursel to use it[1]. I find that's the best way to learn it (and try reading more code from open source project in Rust you like).
I have an opposite experience writing Rust: it allows me to focus on the problem more easily, especially when the problem domain is complex and the codebase grows.
[1] a trick often used while learning human languages