Perhaps it could have been stated better as “the language design removes the need for a multitude of competing libraries.” The statement should not be taken ou

Perhaps it could have been stated better as “the language design removes the need for a multitude of competing libraries.” The statement should not be taken out of context from the rest of the paragraph, which includes, “These libraries are also generally very high quality…” This means that the two or three libraries you find are more likely to handle all of those edge cases you mentioned. Some libraries haven’t been updated in years because they’ve solved the problem they set out to solve, and nobody’s found a fault with them since then.