Or perhaps because the ecosystem is built by people with much formal education and industry experience applying traditional computer science paradigms to a stac

Or perhaps because the ecosystem is built by people with much formal education and industry experience applying traditional computer science paradigms to a stack with bizarre and unconventional tooling, not realizing it was made by other experienced backend developers attempting to fix the same imagined problem in a domain they don't understand. The outcome would be the same, so it's hard to say for sure.