>In short, some programming languages are like catnip for excellent programmers.

I think that misses the point.

Things that are hard have a higher percentage of people who don't need it to be easy.

If you're a "good" programmer you don't need the "community support" (i.e. a bunch of stuff to tell you why you should do things one way or the other in your particular language) so you're free to choose niche languages based on other factors and in turn there will be more good programmers programming in those languages.

You see this in all sorts of subjects not just programming.