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I'm trying to phrase this as delicately as I can but I am really puzzled.
If someone wrote an article about how playing the harp is difficult, just stick with it... would you also say that playing the harp is a terrible hobby?
If it takes the average person 1 million hours to learn rust then the average person won't learn rust
If it takes the average person 1 hour to learn rust then the average person will learn rust.
If you were designing a language which would you pick all else being equal?
To your question, no but I wouldn't be puzzled when most people pick up a guitar. (Both are so much more intuitive than any programming language so the metaphor sets false expectations. Slick political move, but probably just turns more people off of Rust)
But why would you think all else is equal? You might not agree with the tradeoffs Rust makes, and it's not as if there's a perfect language for all uses, but it absolutely makes hard software easier to write.
I've had the opportunity to debug weird crazy memory corruption, as well as "wow it's hard to figure out how to design this in Rust", and having come to terms with things much like this blog post I now get more work done, with less corruption _and_ design problems.