It is all a matter of mindset, but you are blindly ignoring the fact that it takes effort to learn a new mindset. Maybe it went smoothly for you and that's fine (though I suspect you're just not remembering it, perhaps willfully). In fact it went relatively smoothly for me as well.

The point is claiming it's easy dismisses the very real obstacles that exist for others, and does worse than nothing at convincing people to try Rust. So I second dbaupp's sibling comment here- your comments embody the aspect of the Rust community that turns people away.

Please, just slow down in your advocacy. It's not helping.