Invent it or don't invent it. There is no "if" -- that's just bikeshedding. Programming languages are tools, not products. Durable languages evolve to suit the

Invent it or don't invent it. There is no "if" -- that's just bikeshedding. Programming languages are tools, not products. Durable languages evolve to suit the needs of projects, not the aesthetics of the coders. We see recent languages "do the same but better" (as OP opines) because the nature of the projects haven't fundamentally changed.