"Oops, we couldn't find a shared library that this program depends on" is not exactly the same error as, "Oops, we couldn't find the interpreter / VM that you need to run any programs written in this non-AOT-compiled language."

In other words, compare missing msvcrt.dll more to missing libc.so than to not having a JVM or whatever installed. I guess from end user perspective the end result is the same - the program won't run - but what's actually going on under the hood is very different.