Yes and no. Most of the big new languages today are created to support the business of selling things because languages are expensive to make, they don't genera

Yes and no. Most of the big new languages today are created to support the business of selling things because languages are expensive to make, they don't generate any profit themselves, so the only people who have enough money to fund their development are mega corporations, who act in self-interested ways. But look at historical languages and why they were created: Algol - to explore writing algorithms Fortran - to help scientists write programs using typical math formulas Matlab - to help write programs in linear algebra Haskell - to explore lazy program evaluation ML - to explore how to reason about proof automatically C - to build an OS Python - to interface with an OS LISP - to formalize symbol processing APL - to explore programs defined over arrays LOGO - to help young kids to program computers Prolog - to create a language around the idea of formal logic. Smalltalk - to create an entire programming system, not just a language (I've left out C++, Java, and JavaScript because I feel like those languages are mostly about serving business interests) Pretty much the entire computing landscape over the past 50-70 years has been defined by people writing languages for reasons other than "this is for a business to use to make more money". So if we let business-driven interest dictate the future direction, we will have missed out on all the things that could have been. Would Haskell ever have been invented if businesses interests were the only concern for researchers?