I liked mojo as a python superset. Wanted to be able to run arbitrary python through it and selectively change parts to use the new stuff.

A "pythonic language" sounds like that goal has been dropped, at which point the value prop is much less clear to me.

Yes, it's a very common one shared by virtually all Scala 3 developers. Stop. At least for a couple of years.

Tooling and the community just can't keep up and the language is very good already that the focus should be on the ecosystem and not language.

But Scala devs are beyond deaf and that's what you get when a programming language is an ongoing research project on which many students and professors depend.

It's not enough to say "if we stop developing new features the language will die" when there's 0 evidence by it and a huge fatigue towards the relentless development coming from most of the community.

If we want to say it really doesn't matter what language we choose, because any solution can be cooked up regardless, it absolutely matters then what the tools around that language bring to the table.