I quite strongly disagree. My favourite languages, Scheme, C, Go, share precisely the "small and focused" philosophy, and its a big reason why I like them so much. Your point about javascript is not very strong either, I imagine the real reason is its origins as a browser-embedded language meant that the same style of imports in Node.js were not feasible. Even if this is not true, I would then shift the blame to the implementor of Node.

Scheme in particular deserves so much more attention, it is so capable and it is a joy to write.