@alwayscurious I think the risk with huge standard libraries is that they grow stagnant and maintainers are stretched way too thin.

They can grow stagnant because there's a high cost to breaking changes, even in languages with no stability guarantees. And it's hard for third parties to compete with "good enough" if it's in the standard library.

Maintainers are stretched thin because it's not exactly the most glamorous job. So there are relatively few people with both the expertise and willingness to do it. In theory you can solve this with a company paying people a proper salary to maintain it. But in practice I think the tech industry doesn't value maintenance so it still ends up being understaffed.