I recently picked up a book at the airport called "Full Stack Human". Wish I hadn't because every second line has "It's not just about X - It's also about Y!" formatting that screamed LLM generated slop. I'd say it most certainly is dead!
Rust Tuples can be destructured into named variables, or Enums can be used as Monads which give a label to a tuple of variables. Rust Enums are real fun to use so I encourage you to dive in. https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum....