How is it a strawman? Many people have misconceptions with regarding to Rust, while not even knowing about the existence of Ada/SPARK to begin with. They blindly spout "Rust is saFeEe!44!". If you are not a zealot, then it is not applied to you.
I see about 1000x more anti-rust-zealot strawman arguments than rust zealots on this site. Can you give some examples of the misguided rust zealotry you’re talking about?