Automatically deriving Clone is a convenience. You can and should write your own implementation for Clone whenever you need it and automatically derived implementation is insufficient.
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The Rust community is very adamant as a general thing that "you're holding it wrong" when people complain about e.g. BDSM passing semantics, but it's also got REIR/RIIR, which is kinda like "you're holding it wrong" for programming.
These two things together are a category error.
Whether this is a first order good because Rust's choices about how to split the difference between C++ and Haskell are in fact the best future for software or because they make all the money from Rust jobs and books and teaching and shit is one of those assume good intentions by default but also pay attention to conflicts of interest scenarios. Speaking for myself I think most of the zeal is legitimate with a few people trying to cash in like you get with any community.
But like all philosophies of the "There is One True Way, All Else Must Conform" stripe (in Christianity this is Opus Dei and things like that, in Islam it's called Takfir, it's not a new thing) it's misguided and destructive no matter how genuine the intentions of the hardliners.
edit: people will try to say that I'm uniquely antagonistic to Rust, but I opened the meme bookmark tab for a diff and saw this within like two minutes of writing my comment, it's a known thing: https://impurepics.com/posts/2023-03-24-refactoring.html
This pseudo-psychiatry "examine your personal issues" line of deflection can't go out of fashion too soon as far as I'm concerned.
If you want to raise an objection to my analysis of the situation, raise a substantive objection, cite a counter example, propose a theory with more explanatory power, whatever.
The thing I'm calling attention to has it's own meme page: https://enet4.github.io/rust-tropes/rust-evangelism-strike-f...
That's not a personal issue, that's a Rust community optics disaster.