Of course the verbosity is doing something, the same is true for Java as well, it's not like the verbosity is just useless characters doing nothing. Still makes it overly verbose for a lot of us. I still write Rust code daily, but I wish the language thought a bit more about read/write ergonomics.
I'm a professional software developer. In my experience, Rust code is shorter than equivalent C or C++ code, with proper error handling, no memory leaks, no race conditions.
If you rewrite the code above in a proper C, you will have a page of code at least.
