Yes that's correct, for exactly the reason that it is more likely to keep compiling and possibly not do what you intended if the original value's type changes due to refactoring. However there are still a few conversions that don't have alternatives to `as` - truncating conversions (eg i64 -> i32 that intentionally discards the upper half), int <-> float conversions (eg i64 -> f64, both truncating and checked conversions), unsized pointer casts (eg *const [MaybeUninit<u8>] -> *const [u8], `.cast()` only works for Sized target), and probably a few more.