Fair enough. I agree with the sentiment that we need diversity in languages.

Personally, when I'm solving a problem, I like to reach for the pre-established universally understood pattern that's built into my language. Rather than using a language that doesn't have any of those things and requires me to create my own, worse, implementation that's unique to my program (or use a random 3rd-party module of dubious quality for something basic).

Agree. Removing useful features in the name of diversity seems silly.

> requires me to create my own

Yes, how many string contains methods are there out there, as the result of everyone having to write their own.