I know people who run decently sized and successful businesses in a variety of mind-numbing technology (try FileMaker scripting or shell scripting) but that definitely doesn't mean those things don't often suck and that there aren't advances in PL's that don't or won't lead to better software. (I personally don't use PHP at all because I haven't yet seen a reason to use it for any new projects over Python or TS. Is that new match expression proper pattern matching? ;))

It's pretty hard to draw a link between these things and commercial success, but it somewhat unseriously reminds me of Jonathan Blow's warnings that eventually everything is just going to fall apart.