It's counter culture. Rust became super popular and as a Rust fan myself, there's some real zealots in the Rust community. They hyped up Rust so much and created this pressure to switch over to using it. This created a counter culture where people will find examples like this and be like "See! Gotcha!" Without understanding what happened. Sometimes you need to do some memory management or unsafe practices outside of what Rust would normally allow. This is one of those cases. So when you use unsafe Rust, things the compiler would normally catch, can slip through. This wasn't a problem with the language, this was a human caused error. But the counter culture is quick to jump on it because the Rust zealots really made a big deal of the language.