I agree, but I wasn't really trying to make people change. I was just reflecting upon the state of our industry. As I pointed out there is too much tools, intertia and community to change it now. As you say change only happens when the benefits are substantially better.

But it is like people writing about why British railway gauges are a bad choice. It can be an interesting read how that happened and why it is bad, even if everybody knows that they are not going to re-lay railway track all over the UK.

But I will say this: Slowly over time this may change. The problem with old technology keeping up with new is that it always accumulates more cruft. One of the key selling points I remember when Java came out was how simple it was. That advantage is long gone. Eventually technology will collapse by the weight of its own complexity. Although I confess I keep being astonished of how well C++ keeps holding up despite the ridiculous amount of complexity it has accumulated over the years.