This isn't strictly true. For instance Swift uses value semantics, which is equivalent to adding an implicit `.copy()` in rust every time most variables are passed around. It obviates a lot of the low-level details, at the cost of performance and control. This is a lot more "python-like" in my opinion, where having to hold these details in your mind is very much against the design priorities of python.

Python wants everything to be implicit, to eliminate tedium wherever possible, and for syntax to barely exist. By contrast Rust favors explicitness, demands a lot ceremony, and is very syntax-heavy. These languages are antithetical in so many ways.

It's fairly subjective, so I would not try to convince you that Rust is more similar to C than Python, but many of the points you brought up apply to virtually every modern mainstream language. It's hard to imagine why Python would come up as a comparison point for Rust unless C and Python were literally the only other languages you had ever programmed with.