That’s like saying we shouldn’t wear seatbelts or have airbags and antilock brakes because you can still die in a crash.

If anything, that’s still underselling it: there are entire categories of bug which are widespread even in well-tested, heavily-fuzzed C codebases like Chrome but would not be likely or often possible in Rust.

Does it have to be? Riding a bicycle with a helmet isn’t entirely safe, but I still prefer to wear one.