It's completely in-line with Rust's approach. Concentrate on the hard stuff that lifts every boat. Like the type system, language features, and keep the standard library very small, and maybe import/adopt very successful packages. (Like once_cell. But since removing things from std is considered a forever no-no, it seems path handling has to be solved by crates. Eg.
https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/typed-path )