I honestly think it's largely just wanting to be known as author of the popular framework/bundler/engine/linter blah. And that the JS community attaches a lot m

I honestly think it's largely just wanting to be known as author of the popular framework/bundler/engine/linter blah. And that the JS community attaches a lot more importance/status/recognition (or uses social media to talk about the ecosystem more, and that leads to the former?) than happens in other languages. Rust and Ruby too, to a lesser extent. But you don't see this nearly as much in Python or C++ or Go IMO. (I can name Guido van Rossum and Herb Sutter. But who wrote pytest for example? If it were Javascript and I used it I'm sure I'd know. And fwiw I've worked professionally with python for years and not really JS much at all, but I'd recognise more JS names and hear about people far more for JS than python.)