Well, in some sense. But in practice, come on: "write your own slow simple reference-counted GC" is a rather more expensive compromise than "just use Java or Go or whatever, it's faster and simpler for your problem".

Aside from all the nitpickery about runtime implementation, the rustacean community has a serious problem with compromise in general. If you whine in a python/Go/Java/whatever forum about performance, they'll point you to their FFI and show you how to get what you want via C++ integration, because clearly no environment is going to be perfect for everyone. But come at rust with a use case (cyclic data structures here) for which it's a poor fit and everyone goes blue in the face explaining how it's not really a problem. It's exhausting.