Exactly. I don’t really like Java but if I were starting a business that required writing a CRUD backend, I would 100% chose a boring popular language like Java

Exactly. I don’t really like Java but if I were starting a business that required writing a CRUD backend, I would 100% chose a boring popular language like Java over something “smart”. Smart doesn’t scale - if there’s no tooling, bad library support, and no ecosystem, any gain you get by being clever gets erased by needing to reimplement the wheel. In many ways I’d say the language itself is one of the least important factors in choosing a language for a commercial project.