So many people are so drunk on the kool aid, I often wonder if I’m the weirdo for not wanting dozens of third party libraries just to build a simple HTTP client for a simple internal REST api. (No I don’t want tokio, Unicode, multipart forms, SSL, web sockets, …). At least Rust has “features”. With pip and such, avoiding the kitchen sink is not an option.

I also find anything not extensively used has bugs or missing features I need. It’s easier to fork/replace a lot of simple dependencies than hope the maintainer merges my PR on a timeline convenient for my work.