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In my mind the bigger issue is that something like CSV parsing is so common, and so old that it just should be part of every higher level language's standard library these days, as common as split() is. That way people learning the language learn that you just do it with the library and get on with it.

(I agree with the rest, anybody can more or less learn their way around a library with a little time, but learning to actually code well is a much more valuable skill and much more rare).