It's a sign that they learned from Python more than anything else. Better be conservative than have Python's situation of multiple versions of those common functionalities that almost nobody uses and goes for 3rd party libraries.

The Rust vs. Node comparison seems very shallow to me, and it seems to require a lot of eye squinting to work.

People have beef with Rust in other, more emotional ways, and welcome the opportunity to pretend they dislike it on seemingly-rational grounds a la "Node bad amirite lol".