"Perhaps this explains why Odin has found such widespread usage and popularity. /s"

What an unnecessarily snark and dismissive comment to make about someone's work.

  - I'd say within a certain niche Odin is becoming well known and gets its use
  - you do realize using an `Odin package` is putting a program into a sub-folder and that's it
  - It comes with a rich stdlib + vendor libraries out of the box
  - and isn't it kind of up to the creators how to design and promote their language

I'd even argue it's laudable a language doesn't promote itself as a "fixes everything use me at all costs" kind of technology. The creator himself tells people it might not be the right tool for them/their use case, encourages them to try other languages too, sometimes outright tells them Odin doesn't fit their needs and xyz would probably do better.

Odin is pragmatic & opinionated in its language design and goal. Maybe the lack of a package manager is the basis for you to disregard a programming language, for plenty of others (and likely more Odin's target group) it's the least of their concerns when choosing a language.