'no real standard library' doesn't seem entirely fair. Rust has a huge standard library. What it does have is the policy to only include "mature" things with little expected API evolution in the standard libary, which leaves gaping holes where a json parser, a http client or a logging library should be. Those are all those defacto-standard-but-not-officially dependencies
Perhaps that’s just a sign Rust isn’t suitable for those type of projects.
It's a sign that they learned from Python more than anything else. Better be conservative than have Python's situation of multiple versions of those common functionalities (in the stdlib) that almost nobody uses and goes for 3rd party libraries anyway. Is that a better state of affairs?
The Rust vs. Node comparison seems very shallow to me, and it seems to require a lot of eye squinting to work.
People have beef with Rust in other, more emotional ways, and welcome the opportunity to pretend they dislike it on seemingly-rational grounds a la "Node bad amirite lol".