Yeah, but I will take a not great library that works everywhere the compiler does, than be at the whims of which platforms are supported by 3rd party libraries.

I can use most of the clunky Python, Java, .NET and if it must be, Go, standard libraries, than hunting down for dependencies with platform tier support and such.

which, as painful as it may be, is ok. Better to have a safe functional stdlib library than a exposed external crate (which then asks the question; what's the replacement...)

Which isn't actually a problem. You can ignore the bad standard library and use something different.