I left the "mostly" in my comment because custom allocators is one area where Rust as an ecosystem is still in need of some work, and I'm aware of that - hell, in part because of TigerBeetle's blog posts on the subject.
Everything you're describing is a stylistic preference, though - and doesn't contribute to bloat, which is what the parent comment was implying. If your program is bloated, that's on you to clean up - it doesn't matter if it's in C, C++, Rust, or Zig. Every single one of these languages has nothing that stops you from getting it right.
(A weird aside but the downvotes on this chain are just odd to me. I'm not telling y'all to not write Zig, chill already)
Look, I'm working on an async I/O engine, not unsimilar to Tokio. I started running benchmarks only to realize that I'm significantly faster than Tokio. Go, which is a garbage collected language with preemptive scheduling, is also faster than Tokio on these benchmarks. And Tokio is fast, I'm not claiming it's not. Rust developers program in terms of traits, and borrow checker behaviours. That's fine if you want enterprise kind of safety by tooling. It's just not enjoyable to me and that seems fairly common view. There are people who enjoy languages like Rust, Scala, Haskell. They allow you to create your own world in the type system and that's fine, but it is more disconnected from the actual computer the code is running on.
Everything you're describing is a stylistic preference, though - and doesn't contribute to bloat, which is what the parent comment was implying. If your program is bloated, that's on you to clean up - it doesn't matter if it's in C, C++, Rust, or Zig. Every single one of these languages has nothing that stops you from getting it right.
(A weird aside but the downvotes on this chain are just odd to me. I'm not telling y'all to not write Zig, chill already)