Once one does spend some time to become comfortable with the language, that feeling of messiness with unfamiliar syntax fades away. That's the case with any unfamiliar language, not just Rust.

I used Rust for a year and still wasn't used to the syntax, though this was v1.0 so idk what changed. I see why it's so complicated and would definitely prefer it over C or Cpp, but wouldn't do higher-level code in it.