I don't see many complaints about Free Pascal/Delphi. You want a unit? Get it, add it, use it. No 3rd party Rube Goldberg contraption needed. No package man

I don't see many complaints about Free Pascal/Delphi. You want a unit? Get it, add it, use it. No 3rd party Rube Goldberg contraption needed. No package managers or dependency resolvers, no special build tooling, no lock files. No constantly having to run updates and figure out what they broke by way of transitive dependencies. Just get what you need and use it. I haven't, however, developed enough professionally with it to know how that plays out long-term in practice. But I'd have to imagine it would compare favorably to just about everything else nowadays. The things I've been using for the last couple of decades are all pretty abysmal in comparison. I'd say they were a solution in search of a problem, but people have managed to create a problem to justify the solution, which really still isn't very good. At least, not nearly as good as the simple get, add, use pattern.