My point is that if, in the language, everybody is incentivise to use fewer dependencies, then a random library that I would not write myself (because it is an entire project in itself) would have fewer dependencies. Because it is not the case, either I take that library and accept its transitive dependencies, or I don't have a library at all.
In Rust, I'm sometimes actually tempted to wrap a C/C++ library (and its few dependencies) instead of getting the Rust alternative (and its gazillion dependencies).
And you need to think a bit about that (probably not very hard), to help you decide whether I'm irrational or whether you may not have totally understood my point.
You need to think a bit harder about that, to help you decide whether your position is rational.