inexperienced novices and disheartened veterans alike get infatuated with that new shiny thing ...

the rest of just smirk at the pump articles, as we have achieved state of Zen and realize _all_code_is_garbage_ and that nobody, other than minuscule amount of people who ever had a git write access in their life, actually care or will ever care about code let alone a programing language the app was written in

Pretty much. People are gonna find ways to write atrocious Rust code just like they have with any other language, and no-one is gonna bother to check all the unsafe blocks. Severe bugs may be less prevalent, but life as a a developer will suck just as much. :)

People do consistently audit unsafe usage. And I would rather have atrocious rust code that's memory safe, than atrocious C/C++ code that comes with a free package of CVEs.

There are tools that explicitly exist for this use case, such as cargo-geiger [0]. There was some drama with a large framework called Actix a while ago due to the maintainer having a bit of a cavalier attitude towards unsafe usage. Etc.

0: https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger