Yes, the first few weeks of Rust, I wanted to strangle the borrow checker. Now, it seldom gets into the way b/c it's a seamless part of my thinking when I'm writing Rust. I rarely hear from it because I wrote/structured things the right way the first time.

This has had a huge impact on pushing my productivity in Rust back up toward, while not Python-ish levels, at least golang-ish levels.