DI wasn't around when Java (or .Net) came out. DI is a fairly new thing too, relatively speaking, like after ORMs and anonymous methods. Like after Java 7 I think. Or maybe 8? Not a Java person myself.

I know in .net, it was only really the switch to .net core where it became an integral part of the frameworks. In MVC 5 you had to add a third party DI container.

So how can it have been designed for it from the ground up?

In fact, if you're saying 10 years, that's roughly when DI became popular.

You're wrong about other languages not needing it, yes statically typed languagess need it for unit testing, but you don't seem to realize that from a practical perspective DI solves a lot of the problems around request lifetimes too. And from an architectural context it solves a lot of the problem of how to stop bad developers overly coupling their services.

Before DI people often used static methods, so you'd have a real mess of heavily interdependent services. It can still happen now but.its nowhere near as bad as the mess of programming in the 2000s.

DI helped reduce coupling and spaghetti code.

DI also forces you to 'declare' your dependencies, so it's easy to see when a class has got out of control.

Edit: I could keep on adding, but one final thing. Java and .Net are actually quite cumbersome to use DI, and Go is actually easier. Because Go has implicit interfaces, but older languages don't and it would really help reduce boiler plate DI code.

A lot of interfaces in Java/C# only exist to allow DI tow work, and are otherwise a pointless waste of time/code.