If I remember correctly at least Alan Kay openly admits being very inspired by Lisp. Unfortunately the limitations/walled gardens they chose to impose in the name of simplification, everything is an object etc, had us running in circles for a long long time. My guess is it was picked up by managements for the same reasons as Cobol, Java, Go etc.

Well it doesn't say that. I just said it sounds like a reinvention of Lisp because that's what it sounded like to me from what it says on the homepage.