It has nothing to do with Rust. Permissive licenses are more popular with new projects. Rust is more popular with new projects.
The stats show that people are more likely to be attacked by a shark on days when they had ice cream. Eating ice cream does not make you more likely to be attacked by a shark. They are just both things that happen at the beach.
Chimera Linux is developing something called Turnstile. It will provide the necessary service management stuff on Chimera Linux, which does not use systemd. GNOME is the “default” desktop on Chimera.
My understanding is that Chimera wants to do this on a way that will work with other non-systemd systems as well. So this may be your solution to running GNOME on Void.