Because programming languages are the most basic piece of infrastructure on software. And every infrastructure projects suffers from the same issue. It benefit

Because programming languages are the most basic piece of infrastructure on software. And every infrastructure projects suffers from the same issue. It benefits from mass adoption, which basically requires the thing to be free and open source. With that, the value will be captured 0% by the project creators, 10% consultants around the project and 90% cloud providers. The issue is so much more pronounced for programming languages. Why bother..