Yep. And the complex setup that it requires, is a non-solution.
I would rather ditch the entire language, then using that.
I can, in every single language, popular and non-popular, fire
up VS Code and start scripting.
If Julia forces me to create custom packages and follow a quite involved process
just to use a REPL, you simply lose a lot of people at that point.
If you think this is hyperbolic, then we have a case of organizational blindness here.