hopefully at some point they start including more batteries

I agree, there's no silver bullet, only tradeoffs and our appetites for them.

From looking at the list of crates above, I see a lot that are often part of the stdlib of other languages, such as HTTP, concurrency/nio primitives, and logging.

My perception of Rust's not including such fundamental primitives in the standard library is that Rust is still very much experimental, and the ecosystem values tinkering and experimenting with new ideas. The cost of that is increased dependency hell, especially over time. There's obviously huge value in experimentation for the industry, but it makes me hesitate to use Rust for projects where I just need to get stuff done, and stay done.

As inconvenient as it is, I tend to agree. Having worked with C#/.Net where almost everything in the box, Node, where very little is in the box and a miniscule amount of rust which is more towards the latter, I prefer the latyer.

Now, I am somewhat supposed that say tokio or similar hasn't made it in the box yet, it allows for much greater experimentation.

Aside, I wouldn't be surprised to see MS generate a massive sure if libraries if they shift more internals development to rust. Not sure if it'll be good/bad or otherwise.

Go disagrees with you