While I also long for more powerful frameworks / libs that lighten the burden of infrastructure code and other boiler plate code having it all dominated by one

While I also long for more powerful frameworks / libs that lighten the burden of infrastructure code and other boiler plate code having it all dominated by one company, specially a small startup is a grave problem for adoption. I think representing programs as text is the simplest form of programs that can be used by humans and computers. And that's why is has stuck.