> apparently if things worked well, there would be at just one true - and well respected - answer for these.
Since when has that ever been true of any language where it wasn't dictated from above as a requirement, or people weren't funneled through norms and making alternate methods at a minimum hard (e.g. python)?
Expecting there to be one true and respected answer is to assume that you're either entering the ecosystem at a point where things are temporarily stable, or the ecosystem is stagnant, or someone has developed perfection and no advances can be made. CS and technologies and tooling hasn't stopped advancing, so I'm not sure why you would expect any particular language to have, or see that as a good thing.
Since when has that ever been true of any language where it wasn't dictated from above as a requirement, or people weren't funneled through norms and making alternate methods at a minimum hard (e.g. python)?
Expecting there to be one true and respected answer is to assume that you're either entering the ecosystem at a point where things are temporarily stable, or the ecosystem is stagnant, or someone has developed perfection and no advances can be made. CS and technologies and tooling hasn't stopped advancing, so I'm not sure why you would expect any particular language to have, or see that as a good thing.