Am I the only person that remembers how hard it was to wrap your head around numbers starting at 0, rather than 1?
So the reason why you don't see many people fighting 0-indexing is because they actually prefer it.
I started out with BASIC and Fortran, which use 1 based indices. Going to C was a small bump in the road getting used to that, and then it's Fortran which is the oddball.
DIM a(10)
I believe it was QBASIC that first borrowed the ability to define ranges explicitly from Pascal, so that we could do:
DIM a(1 TO 10)
Maybe you had the luck of learning 0 based language first. Then most of them were a smooth ride.
My point is you forgot how hard it is because it's now muscle memory (if you need a recap of the difficulty learn a program with arbitrary array indexing and set you first array index to something exciting like 5 or -6). It also means if you are "fighting the borrow checker" you are still at pre-"muscle memory" stage of learning Rust.