I mean, I have worked and, and been guilty of tooling driven development (RiiR anyone?) .
But, also, in a comment below Alexey shares many of the reasons other than language. I think Oxia does a good job of sharing their approach in - https://github.com/streamnative/oxia/blob/main/docs/design-g...
(Alexey's comment, FYI, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37677324)