The reason why people are criticizing is because Rust evangelicals say stuff like "if it compiles it works" or talk about how Rust's type system is so much better than other languages that it catches logic errors like this. You won't see Go or Java developers making such strong claims about their preferred languages.
Come on now. You can't blame the compiler when the programmer explicitly told the compiler to not worry about it. There is nothing in existence that can protect against something like that.
