Both. The people who promote Rust can be very annoying. They trumpet Rust’s memory safety while turning a blind eye to any problems with the language, let alone the effort required to rewrite a large system and all the bugs such a rewrite will introduce.

How do you get membership to a private tracker when they are always invite only?

The Despecialized editions are nice, but check out project 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/