Long but a very good blog post. I largely agree with all the conclusions and similarly wish Rust would go in a better direction with regards to certain features, especially compile-time reflection.

I also sadly agree with the comments on the Rust leadership. My personal experience with contributing to Rust has not been great, though I haven’t tried very hard (but exactly because the initial feeling was not great).

I’d recommend switching away from Rocket if you can. It is not very actively maintained and Axum has become the better choice.