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The thing about allowing libraries being done is a bit more nuanced than not having lots of different libraries doing the same thing. There are lots of competing libraries even now and existing libraries do get surpassed in popularity. But they keep working and don't become unusable or problematic as often as in other cultures.

I don’t think this is entirely right: there are plenty of languages with similarish mindshare that don’t have this: just building a Haskell project, for example, can be a nightmare if they hasn’t been maintained. Scala also has this issue, despite having a similar marketshare as Clojure.

If the premise is that you limit your dependencies have low maintenance code, you'd probably not include many (any?) of said thousands of libs. Also it isn't about the number of libs, but how often they change.