I thought that at first too, but you get used to it very quickly. You won't even really need the most complex parts for most stuff, I've been writing rust for ~3 years now and I can't remember the last time I used lifetimes for example. I wouldn't really recommend learning rust as a first language since it has some very unique concepts, but if you already have programming experience (which I'm assuming you do) you're definitely experienced and smart enough to learn it :)