From a more low-level programming perspective as inspired by C code and kin, the use of directly shared resources makes more sense, and can be argued to have performance benefits.

Rust focuses on performance and type safety. One of the reasons for Rust's increasing popularity is that Google started programming low-level parts of Android in the Rust language." ...

Over time, engineers developed ways to abstract away low-level programming operations with a more friendly interface. That's where programming languages come in.