It's a perfectly valid sentiment but... Comments like this annoy me because, as I get older (turned 40 this year surpassing 20 years of web development) I've noticed variants of it come up many times a year in various contexts and it often feels like so much useless hand wringing and lamenting. In my experience shoulda, coulda, wouldas will get you bupkis in this world. Kinda like how a great idea is worth pretty much nothing.
The problem is much bigger than the design of a language, the problem is producing something (not a language) people will use and growing software systems that meet varying demands as those products evolve in a way that is affordable. Of course there are all sorts of tradeoffs to make these things happen, most of which have nothing to do with idealized whiteboarding and language design. That stuff often irrelevant when you take into consideration all the various kinds of other situation-specific details people face to make things lots of people use.
That goes the same for products and for languages. And of course the two classes of processes co-evolve. Further, language design does not imply better products. It is tangential to all the other things that make a product happen. You have to hire good people, you have to identify meaningful problems and provide better solutions. You have to get it in front of people and you have to adapt over time to your core audience's needs. Use lua use php use C# whatever you do all your choices including that one need to be self supporting of each other. The developers have experience in x, y is what runs on the platform, devs more often know a than b and so are cheaper to find. Language design matters not in those scenarios.
Not defending any language design or any technical choices over others here at all, just saying if you want to see a change in the state of things sentiments like this are more like eating popcorn while you watch the world go by. Kind of like when you have an open source project and get requests for fixes but no pull requests. The most viable open source is build by a community of collaborators and is easy for new collaborators to join in and contribute to. If you don't have a community of users that care about your project it does not matter what technical decisions you make, what language you use and what design it follows.
So what matters more than language design is problem solving and community and getting more pull requests than the other guy, more conversions than the other app and shoulda, coulda, wouldas are popcorn on the theater floor.