When the borrow checker doesn't let you compile, it's either because it can't understand your code (and that's unfortunate and infuriating and costs a lot of time to figure out), either because your code won't be absolutely safe (and so you'd better listen to the BC instead of complaining about it).

rust can be very frustrating because it forces you to think up front at a level of safety you may not be used to. That's the issue.

I do fairly simple things with rust (i.e. just some threads, no complex data structure (but complex program nonetheless)) and rust safety helps me a lot in reducing the number of bugs.