The underlying problems are mainly psychological in my opinion. FOMO (fear of missing out) and attaching your identity to a language or tech stack. People get

The underlying problems are mainly psychological in my opinion. FOMO (fear of missing out) and attaching your identity to a language or tech stack. People get so religiously tied to their technology sometimes that they cannot change without changing themselves. It's the same case with the fractured ecosystem of Linux distros, there's tonnes of them! From the outside it looks overwhelming as all these projects are concurrently developing similar things. But the benefits are a rich and diverse ecosystem meeting a range of needs. Imagine if everyone used one language like Java and never created new packages... and simply maintained existing libraries... that's not a world I'd like developing in...