Modern wind turbines absolutely have shifted the paradigm - both in size, efficiency and durability. Across the globe, demand for new turbines in the market is insatiable. No other electricity generation technology (even nuclear in its heyday back in the 1980s) has grown as fast as wind has in the last 15 years - although I expect it's soon to be overtaken by PV growth. It's likely that this year the amount of electricity consumed globally from wind turbines (around 2.5TWh) will match that of nuclear reactors despite nuclear's 60 year head start in grid scale operations.
But the most obvious difference, and that which contributes most to the paradigm shift, is the difference in price.
The existence of technology alone isn't enough to shift any paradigm - the tech has to be relatively cheap - transistors were a curiosity until they became cheap and then they shifted the paradigm, same thing happened with integrated circuits and nearly every technology breakthrough in history.
Batteries, PV and wind turbines are mass-produced and their prices are falling as you'd expect given the expansion in production (between 80% and 95% in the last 15 years). This has been the way since Henry Ford and is not going to change. What is also inevitable is that once mass-production is introduced into any human endeavour, then the existing technology is doomed.
The TMSR-LF1 in China has not being selling into the grid for several years. It was never envisaged to do so - it's absolutely tiny (only 2MW) and it's intended that it will operate intermittently for the first 5 or more years before they try running it continuously. This is a science experiment, not a viable commercial reactor. The 2nd Oak Ridge reactor back in the 1960s was 7 or 8 times bigger - although it never managed to run properly and only ever achieved 7MW of output.
I really don't understand why thorium liquid salt reactor enthusiasm is widespread. It's just one of endless reactor designs which failed to make it into commercial operation because of a host of genuine technical/engineering reasons. Just read the wikipedia page[1] - the list of disadvantages is longer than the list of advantages. For every problem it solves, it introduces several more.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor