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The ruby community is able to do it by having a rigorous set of defaults. When you look at the ecosystem there is far more inter compatibility than say JavaScript/ npm because there are robust norms.

The obsession with magic is actually more an obsession on developer speed and ease because that is the biggest cost and driver of software. The magic also promotes following well tested patterns.

You seem to be advocating a dependency free path where the developer builds everything from scratch. Totally a valid approach but at the cost of development speed and ease. It also results loss of the collective knowledge of a community.