You could argue that standard libraries should be enormous and try to be everything to everyone. In fact, this is one of Mathematica's selling points -- they ha

You could argue that standard libraries should be enormous and try to be everything to everyone. In fact, this is one of Mathematica's selling points -- they have many complex algorithms implemented. However, this also means there is an enormous, aging codebase that Wolfram continually must maintain and add new features to. It means that coders from different communities (who use different sections of documentation) likely have very different standard practices. And, I am concerned that this philosophy of "always having to look everything up" really hinders their knowledgebase product due to lack of consistency. However, I applaud Wolfram for the ambition and enthusiastically sticking with it over so many years.