Rust is doing this correctly. It’s better to model things as they are rather than requiring a bunch of implicit knowledge. The simplicity of C is dangerously misleading.

simplicity is difficult because there's no room to hide the lack of clear conviction that complexity affords

Truth should follow the Github model. As soon as something is factually wrong, it should be easy to correct it and make the mistake visible to everyone.

design as a quest to discover a simple set of primitives, a small alphabet for generating a system. To paraphrase Gall’s Law: Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior.