30 years of C++ development experience means you aren't going to find any PL difficult and therefore your views on easy/difficult a PL is to learn and get going cannot be taken seriously. :)
While my overinflated ego enjoys your assessment, I want to reiterate that the patterns that minimize friction with the borrow checker aren't harder than standard patterns you'd see in garbage collected OOP or Functional focused languages, just different. Anecdotally here on HN it seems like people who came from ocaml or f# find rust even easier to adapt to than c++ people.
