My first thought was they should have replicated Ada's design instead, my second thought I hope that they have a good linter because putting arbitrary offset implementation in a library is a minefield.
I don't claim to be especially smart: this is/was obvious.. Unfortunately what isn't obvious is how to fix this issue and especially how to fix the culture which produces this kind of issue..
Even Perl realized that changing the indexing of arrays was a bad idea. Which is why the special variable $[ has been deprecated every which way possible because it caused too many bugs.
Several of the most serious scientifically minded programming languages have also had arrays that can be indexed starting at different offsets, including Fortran, Chapel and Fortress. If Julia were zero-based OffsetArrays would still exist and be highly useful. OffsetArrays is not some "kludge" just to allow indexing from zero. Frankly, indexing from zero isn't improtant enough for that. What really makes OffsetArrays useful is being able to do things like have indices go from -k:k where k may depend on the particular dimension. That way the point A[0, 0, 0] is the center of the array and you can navigate up/down/back from there naturally. Of course you can simulate that with arrays that arrays that start at zero or one, but it's a major pain.