I feel like there's plenty of places to make criticisms of Rust's syntax, but the example they picked has like half a dozen places where the full path to reference an item is used instead of importing it. Sure, there are languages where you're required to import things rather than referencing them in the full path, but there are also languages where you don't have any flexibility in the paths to use something (e.g. Go and Java) or where they dump literally everything into a single namespace with no context (e.g. C and C++). Using the entire path to something instead of importing it is absurdly less common by at least an order of magnitude over importing things directly, so it's not like people are abusing it all over the place (if anything, people probably import things _more_ than they need to, like with top-level functions that might otherwise make their provenance obvious). Having an option to do things verbosely that most people don't actually do is "unergonomic"? It's like saying the problem with Unix file paths is that using absolute paths for literally everything is ugly; sure, it can be, but that's also just not how 99% of people use them.
I feel like there's plenty of places to make criticisms of Rust's syntax, but the example they picked has like half a dozen places where the full path to reference an item is used instead of importing it. Sure, there are languages where you're required to import things rather than referencing them in the full path, but there are also languages where you don't have any flexibility in the paths to use something (e.g. Go and Java) or where they dump literally everything into a single namespace with no context (e.g. C and C++). Using the entire path to something instead of importing it is absurdly less common by at least an order of magnitude over importing things directly, so it's not like people are abusing it all over the place (if anything, people probably import things _more_ than they need to, like with top-level functions that might otherwise make their provenance obvious). Having an option to do things verbosely that most people don't actually do is "unergonomic"? It's like saying the problem with Unix file paths is that using absolute paths for literally everything is ugly; sure, it can be, but that's also just not how 99% of people use them.