Is the comparison too far off to be useful or straight up incorrect?

It reads like an attempt to hijack the thread to make it about Rust.

Thank you for clarifying. I can see how it may come off as this.

I guess this is a symptom of learning language X in our free time in combination with a "I know this" dopamine hit while being in the early learning stages.

By the way I always thought of JS closing over references (instead of values) was a feature. A closure over a mutable reference or pointer essentially becomes an object interface. Otherwise defaulting to 'const' makes the intent clear.