Shared mutable state is the root of all evil, and it can be solved either by completely banning sharing (actors) or by banning mutation (functional), but Rust gives fine-grained control that lets you choose on case-by-case basis, without completely giving up either one. In Rust, immutability is not a property of an object in Rust, but a mode of access.

It's also silly to blame Rust for not having flexibility of a high-level GC-heavy VM-based language. Rust deliberately focuses on the extreme opposite of that: low-level high-performance systems programming niche, where Clojure isn't an option.