Nah, my point was that people who ignored the incumbent "wisdom" in the late 90's, actually took over the web.
As much as some "technical" people deride PHP and the sort of self taught developers that were using it back then, WordPress pretty much is "the web" if you exclude Facebook and other global scale centralised web platforms, and the bits of the non FAANG et al owned web that aren't WordPress are very likely to be PHP too. Hell, even Facebook might still count as a PHP site.
In 30 years time, it won't be the most elegant or pure language or framework choices that dominate, it'll be the language/frameworks that people who don't care about elegance or purity end up using to get their idea onto the internet. If I had to guess, it'll likely be LLM written Python - deeply influenced and full of idioms from publicly available 2018-2024 era open source Python code that the AI grifters hoovered up and trained their initial models on.
