Yeah, there is a huge class of techies that sincerely believe having several options for certain big and important needs (and thus libraries) is desirable. That’s one of the things that is still putting me off in OCaml btw.
At one point core contributors and community should converge and start agreeing on what’s the go-to way even if it lacks in one way or another – there are sub-libraries springing up that deal with some perceived or real deficiencies in the bigger / std library and all is right in the world.
I don’t know why the above is such a mind-blowing revelation for so many programmers. Maybe some misguided notion of “competing libraries” or “democracy” or “choice” or whatever. But writing code for money is not a political statement; it’s a job. Way too many people lack the ability to discern between the two, somehow.