Audience observation that the language itself sets the ecosystem threshold. Schirp confirms: a better base language (strong type system) means less automation work to bridge from 'parsed/booted' to a good contribution threshold. You still have to invest in automation, but bridging from a low threshold like Ruby's is much harder than from a high one like Haskell's. Defaults and the standard library matter because systems regress to defaults at scale; Ruby's permissive runtime (monkey patches leaking into core, redefinable operators) forces ongoing fighting with the ecosystem, eating into automation capacity — Ruby has rolled back some of this but the hazards still exist.