[qwertyuiop924]

That's true of any piece of tech. The solution to C++'s problems didn't come from the people who avoided that language entirely, it came from Mozilla, who are up to their eyeballs in C++. People who hate Sexprs still haven't come up with a good replacement.

  They've got XML

Many of the people behind that were Lispers. And anyways, I said a GOOD replacement.

But yeah, the solutions to a problem with a system don't come from the people who hate its guts and won't touch it: It comes from people who use it, need its functionality, and need those warts fixed.