I do understand the point you are making, but if the goal is to discourage use, the tooling should make it easy for downstream users (other developers) to know that a certain dependency "relies on a smart programmer doing the right thing". My 2 cents - some sort of `unsafe` usage score??

I am suggesting this to prevent the likes of the burn-out that happened with actix-web and its use of unsafe (which is now fixed apparently)

There exist unofficial tools for counting the number of unsafe blocks in a project: https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger

However a sufficiently determined evil crate can use soundness holes (like fake-static) or macros (like plutonium) to misbehave without visible unsafe.