I believe it's because of Lisp. The majority of the new generation of programmers are mostly just clueless about how Lisp remains relevant and how things in the Lisp-world are calmly and quietly getting just built, problems solved, solutions developed - without fanfare and pomposity.
The biggest digital bank in the world uses it. Nubank, using Datomic as their primary tech driver, grew from ~12M customers in 2019 to 131M in 2025 - almost 1000% growth in less than a decade. Not an exactly faithful comparison, but for JPMorgan getting to their ~80M customers took dozens of acquisitions and 150 years.
Netflix uses it. Amazon uses it. Apple uses it. Walmart built their billing system in it. Cisco's entire cybersec stack is on it. Even NASA uses it.
The number of Lisp dialects just this past decade has exploded - you can find practical, working Lisp pretty much for just about any runtime now. The amount of Emacs Lisp on GitHub alone should be at least surprising - you check the GitHub lang stats, and may think how weird - a non-general-purpose PL, that has always had one and only intent, is among some top languages, why? r/emacs subreddit gets daily, pretty much daily announcements of some new Emacs packages. The age of LLMs is now practically proving the value of Lisp. Working with an AI harness through a Lisp REPL is palpably a better experience - agents work faster, spending far fewer tokens.
It is honestly just baffling how almost every PL out there is restrictive, in the sense that they impose seemingly weird and arbitrary nuisances, while Lisp has always had just two necessities - structural editing and REPL-driven workflow. Those are the only two things anyone needs to grok in order to efficiently build with it. And even these are not hard requirements.
It gets frustratingly exhausting to dispel a constant barrage of biases. As if people just don't want to believe their own eyes to see how pragmatically commonsensical it is and always have been.