"People who say Rust is hard to learn have always confused me. I learned programming in this order: (...)"

(proceeds to list a quite rare and outlier-ish learning sequence, and all in non-scripting languages to boot).

Well, of course those people confused you. What you, who learned Scheme, C++ and Haskell before going to Rust, have in common with someone who only knows C or Java or only got his start in some scripting languages, so as to be able to relate with their "Rust is hard" experience?