Borrow checker based .drop/deallocation is very, very convenient for data with linear or otherwise trivial lifetime, but for complex cases you still end up paying with either your effort, Arc/Arc<Mutex, or both. Where it does help is knowing that your code is thread-safe, something Rust is unmatched at.

But otherwise, C# is a quite unique GC-based language since it offers full set of tools for low level control when you do need that. You don't have to fight GC because once you use e.g. struct generics for abstractions and stack allocated/pooled buffers or native memory for data neatly wrapped into spans, you get something close to C but in a much nicer looking and convenient package (GC is also an optimization since it acts like an arena allocator, and each individual object has less cost than pure reference counted approach).

Another language, albeit with small adoption, is D which too has GC when you want an escape hatch while offering features to compete with C++ (can't attest to its GC performance however).