The best feature of Rust is that I’m allowed to name a variable “class”
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The trade-off is on the learning curve, for the benefit of the uninitiated and to the detriment of the experienced. Everyone has the cost of learning that tpe = type, but only the subset who use it extensively feel the cost of typing the backticks.
But it's still fair to do that analysis, based presumably on some measure of the relative and minimal complexity of discovering "tpe" vs typing backticks. Humans are very bad at multiplying very big numbers and very small numbers, generally...