And combined with its inability to provide mature native APIs and its hostility towards libraries containing ports, this essentially kills the language.

Elm's current story for interacting with the wider web ecosystem is "reinvent the wheel a dozen times by DIYing your own wrappers around literally everything". Fine for a trivial toy project, not fine for building production software.

I understand why they made those decisions, and each choice on its own is logical, but that doesn't make the combined outcome any better.