I think this is exactly how R's accreted features to make it do things that it was never designed to do. When the "tool you use" becomes the "kind of developer you are," things get a little restrictive.
Re:Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:40AM
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It's also how languages like Scala become "everything and the kitchen sink" multi-paradigm monsters. People making the tool want it to do everything, so that they can get all the developers, so they make it a functional object-oriented imperative procedural declarative hodgepodge of 15 different barely-mutually-operable sub-languages, and you get a mess.
I don't think it's an issue of not wanting to learn other languages.
If you really like screwdrivers and go to screwdriving events, have a collection of screwdrivers, you may end up living in a echo chamber where you and your peers are convinced using a screwdriver is a good tool to plant a nail.