While this is correct, it's still much easier to think about lifetimes in managed languages. The huge majority of allocated objects gets garbage-collected after a very short time, when they leave the context (similar to RAII).

Mostly you need to think about large and/or important objects, and avoid cycles, and avoid unneeded references to such objects that would live for too long. Such cases are few.

The silver lining is that if you make a mistake and a large object would have to live slightly longer, you won't have to wrangle with the lifetime checker for that small sliver of lifetime. But if you make a big mistake, nothing will warn you about a memory leak, before the prod monitoring does.