Looking at all the responses here, it is a quite successful troll post.

Automotive developers successfully switched from barely-knowing-C to barely-knowing-C++. Surely, they will be equally successful in switching to barely-knowing-Rust.

I have seen something similar on Twitter a while ago. That one shut down, so i decided to build my own.

Probably a little more fine tuning on my news bot. You can see it in action here.

Well, initially he moderated everything. He also creates lots of sock puppets for fake activity. That would be much easier today with chatgpt.

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.