Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.
I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".
I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".
I don't really care that some very amateur enthusiasts wrote some bad code for fun, but how in the world did anyone who knows anything about linux take this seriously as a coreutils replacement?