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It's an uncommon affliction.
Compiled programs aren't that much problematic. They usually integrate well with system libraries and can be installed unobtrusively into the system (like /usr/local/bin or /opt). Or they can be packaged easily for the system package manager. Dependency issues are solved at compile time and forgotten for the most part. Artifact reuse is also better - even between languages like C++ and Rust. The only trouble I had with packaging compiled programs (for Gentoo) is when the compiled program also had JS modules in it. That was precisely due to having to deal with NPM inside a build sandbox.
Clearly you've never run across a package install or update that pulled in ~400 other dependencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38511590
You're right about runtimes being a pain. I recall that time my Ruby install got hosed by something, I don't know what, that broke Jekyll. I never figured out what happened, and after spending a lot of a time trying to fix it, I gave up, installed Hugo, converted my sites, and never looked back.
I honestly wish we at least got first-class support for adding say “import numpy-1.31” to the code, such that you could safely install multiple versions of a package in parallel in the global PYTHONPATH without issues.
I loved RoR when playing with it back when it was popular but I was just learning to program + using a computer.
Fast-forward a few years, my last Ruby experience was struggling with dependencies for Jekyll. Horror story indeed.