I'm not sure it's concise enough to be a good QOTW (the relevant part is four paragraphs), but The Good > Performance in Two Years of Rust is the most satisfyingly argued expression I've yet seen of the problem with pervasive slowness in languages.
(The whole thing is beautifully insightful. For example, I've never had something about workspaces resonate as much as The Bad > The Module System and, as such, despite having been writing Rust since literally the day the v1.0 stability promise came into effect, I've avoided workspaces so hard that seeing lines like "and don’t forget to set publish = false in the Cargo.toml" are less "I relate to that" and more "I'm going to chop this post up and put pieces of it in my basket of reference materials".)