My point is that if, in the language, everybody is incentivise to use fewer dependencies, then a random library that I would not write myself (because it is an entire project in itself) would have fewer dependencies. Because it is not the case, either I take that library and accept its transitive dependencies, or I don't have a library at all.

In Rust, I'm sometimes actually tempted to wrap a C/C++ library (and its few dependencies) instead of getting the Rust alternative (and its gazillion dependencies).