My experience is the opposite. I spend a lot more time in a debugger when I work with golang than when I'm working with rust. Sure, there's a learning curve with rust's borrow checker, but once you figure out how to use it I find rust to be a much more "flow state" development experience, with less interruptions of the form "what is this program actually doing and why?"

You forget that a lot of projects benefit greatly from generalized GC.

No. I didn't forget. It has not been my experience that not having a garbage collector in rust was a problem in practice.