So tell them off and carry on? Why would you care about their opinion?
Writing low-level systems code often that involves pointer arithmetic or type punning. The whole point of Rust is to be able to write such code with the iffy parts clearly delimited.
One of the things that set off the whole actix debacle was a PR removing unsafe code with the equivalent safe code was rejected, even as it was shown to cause unsoundness reachable by safe code using the framework.