> [...] Rust forces them to worry about allocations and cleaning up after themselves. C++ should have the same issue but its been around long enough that most of those details have safely been wrapped behind STL and other abstractions to the point where most people don't need to worry about them.

Also, C/C++ comes with the venerable "kill the process GC" that makes it easy for beginners and other mortals to feel good about code even when it not strictly is good. Rust is all about making that kind of quality mandatory.