I can partly understand your points. I actually hated the "traditions" like Just Another Perl Hacker because it strongly gives an illusion of Perl as an obfuscated language.
My corresponding counterpoint is that you can write an obfuscated code in any language, no exception---probably a side-effect of Turing-completeness. If people has a general dislike towards too much magic and magic can be replaced with science^W saner alternatives there is no problem. The problem arises when you have to rely on magic for the certain class of tasks; it's no doubt that C++ (even the modern one) has this problem, but I think it is too early to claim that Rust has the same symptom.
My corresponding counterpoint is that you can write an obfuscated code in any language, no exception---probably a side-effect of Turing-completeness. If people has a general dislike towards too much magic and magic can be replaced with science^W saner alternatives there is no problem. The problem arises when you have to rely on magic for the certain class of tasks; it's no doubt that C++ (even the modern one) has this problem, but I think it is too early to claim that Rust has the same symptom.