Maybe the problem is libraries themselves.

All else equal, I'd rather have the richest possible functionality built into the language. At least I know that it will be updated and maintained in one place, and there's very little ambiguity about setup. You don't have to start picking apart the fact IN THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, libfoo was imported by pasting it in the code base in 1977 before package management existed and globally namespaced, but libbar is a first-class citizen in the depency-injection system.

If you know you can just call bargraph($data), even if the stock bargraph library is boring, then people and LLMs will favour it.