An important thing that many people fail to realise is that Julia-1.0 came as a surprise to package authors as well, and thus the first month of the the release has been a scramble to get everything working on 1.0. Unfortunately the pre-1.0 package manager did not have good facilities for upper bounding versions - so essentially everybody's packages would install on 1.0 but be broken.

At exactly the same time, a lot of people thought "hey, 1.0 time to check out this new language", and would experience all those crashes.

Doing a review of Julia based on the experience in the first month after 1.0 will be grossly misleading. I've used the language progressively more for the last 3 years, and also teach a university R course, so I have some experience to base that claim on.