Making your own engine is worthwhile learning experience. The same as trying to recreate any of the foundational tools that you use. Might not be the fastest or best way to make a game but a good way to make yourself a better developer.

Author of the PR made it opt-out. I think it may be enough of the compromise for the maintainer.

I never saw anything about 2022 survey, and I do use Rust at work and follow the news around it.

Good points about advantages of TUI. I think the keyboard focus and speed is what often sells me on them. There’s no reason a good GUI couldn’t have those but the moment your user has access to mouse you get lazy on the keyboard part and much was said already about big GUI frameworks/ecosystems and their impact on performance.