Comment by ummonk

The goalposts haven't moved. The goalposts were always "the current compiler is the language".

If there is a proposed fix to the soundness hole that wouldn't reject some existing sound Rust code, please link to it; none of the proposed fixes I've seen do so. And yes, Rust's policies do allow for breaking changes in pursuit of soundness - likely some day many years from now safe Rust will indeed be sound and guaranteed to be memory safe.