At work where I was mostly writing Python before (though not by choice) and recently moved towards rust for new projects I kind of have to agree that it is quite easy to write working code. But that's because Python is a special kind of hell for more complex code.

I haven't written much C++ in my professional life, but in my personal and hobby experience the big difference in why rust code tends to just work compared to it is how ubiquitous things like using Enum, Result and Option types are compared to C++'s optional, variant and expected. Due to that together with its pattern matching functionality it's often very easy to write rust code that comprehensively handles all cases, unlike in C++ where libraries handle return types, errors and such is inconsistently at best due to their age, and will likely never become consistent.

Obviously those things aren't solely a property of rust, but it is in my opinion what makes it easier and faster than C++ (or Python), especially as the compiler gets in the way when people get silly ideas in terms of how to quickly hack something together with side effects etc. which I saw a lot in C++.