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Rather than being examples of solution aversion, these are examples of trade-offs. Garbage collection solves some problems, but causes others, which is why not all software uses it. Static typing might help with some things, but causes other problems, which is why dynamic typing exists.

Though you are trying to make a point about communities like Go, C++, Python, and Haskell, you yourself are showing certain prejudices as far as language features that are not objectively justifiable, and it's not really any different.



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