Failing to respond in detail to all of the claims you believe to be your most important ones is not what is usually meant by a "straw man."
While I don't mind Rust (although I'm not too good at it yet) I really do find the crowd of overzealous enthusiasts claiming in the most hyperbolic terms that the necessity of its universal use is an urgent security issue quite off-putting sometimes.
I've yet to see any serious usage of SELinux in the real world
I too have successfully avoided it, but we must acknowledge that not everyone has been so fortunate.
Indeed the language is extremely fashionable among government types and many others. I did not really mean to suggest otherwise. If accusing me of erecting a straw man is your way of apologizing for your initial comment, I accept it.
Gender neutral pronouns are pretty huge too. Sure you can do them in English without too many problems usually, just as it's also possible to code safely in C. It requires everyone to change their old habits, but it's much less of a change than is involved in adopting a whole new language.
Anyway, I do like Rust better personally.
Switching everything from C to Rust because it has better memory safety is more akin to changing languages from English to Esperanto because it has gender neutral pronouns and other cool features. Maybe it's a good idea, but it's understandable that some people are reluctant.
Immutable IoT thin-client Snap container-based systems seems like a pretty weird kink, but who am I to judge?
It's not for the end user's boss, it's there to collect data for the future Microsoft user behaviour analysis tools that will be sold to the end user's boss's boss.
To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It's just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like "Firefox is just a puppet for Google" is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that's going to convince anyone.
Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.
Maybe I don't want the "normies" around, whoever they are, but personally I would like to see a lot more people joining in such as Go players, Skyrim modders, situationists, auto mechanics, British panel show enthusiasts, death metal guitarists, discordians, card sharks, magicians, acid heads, skydivers, xylophonists, and amateur zookeepers. This part of fedi has more than enough politics and computers and too little everything else.