This is excellent point. Zig authors like Go authors prioritize software engineering and hence upfront work on tooling, fast compilers, cross compilation etc. Whereas a lot of upcoming languages in last decade are prioritizing PL design part, so tooling will be delegated to external projects.

I have seen many say just combine PL design innovation and tooling part and it will be perfect but I think this will not happen because it becomes very difficult and sensibilities of these approaches do not match.