Comment by dataplumb3r

Some of these are situational, but many are expectations of a modern platform.

Take Python - the standard lib now has things like a toml parser, sqlite client.

And while I avoid the entire JS ecosystem as much as possible, a simple search to find a good Postgres client was not elucidating.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers two options - with node-postgres / pg seeming to be the most supported or postgres.js which has more abstractions but is less active

Contrast that to the question for Java, where it's clear the official JDBC driver is the best option.