I have taken the time to learn rust and you're absolutely right. It's a very complex, design-by-committee language. It has brilliant tooling, and is still much less complex than it's design-by-committee competitor C++, but it will never be easy to learn.
its not design by committee its design by Pull request
It doesn't have a central https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life like python used to
so people suggest and implement features as a group,
with code counting for a lot (although theoretical issues with safety/design also matter) as opposed to companies arguing for their pet features endlessly without much difference. Look at how long it takes C++ to get any new features.