I couldn't agree more and was just making this point to someone last week - for many of the well-established languages, 80% of the reasons to use or not to use

I couldn't agree more and was just making this point to someone last week - for many of the well-established languages, 80% of the reasons to use or not to use them is the associated culture, from the qualifications of the average applicant to the prevailing approaches to solving problems.