I believe that some hype / over-enthusiasm is acceptable, but I'm a bit more worried when a given community uses it as some kind of organized propaganda, arriving to excesses like saying that writing code in non-safe languages should be considered immoral, and also never admitting that Rust is a compromise in the design space like anything else. So ok for the hype, but sometimes I see some excesses. Anyway this is just my very limited opinion, I don't claim to be right, I just believe my feeling represents some part of people here.
Like you said its fine to promote language on its merit, but using false propaganda to promote it borders fraud and Rust community needs to act together to stop such practices.
Overhype within Rust community is a sign of fear among the community that some simple language (may be zig, nim or something new) might come and pull the rug under their feet. Given it compromise on simplicity in favour of quashing memory safety bugs.
One reason rewrite in Rust is popular because its easier to copy something already done vs doing something original (one recent example came to mind is rewriting gnu coreutils in Rust).
