From what I can tell, Ryan Dahl doesn't have anything to do with this (other than it using Deno). At the very least, he isn't a contributer to the Repo.
Deno is repeating a lot of the same things from node, but its in typescript now, and there's some rust involved, so that makes it good. Wait till you're this deep into your career and people are still hammering square pegs into the same well worn circle holes and you'll be the same way.