I am fine with people having principles and doing things their way. Not everything has to be a race to be the best. There are still plenty of people that appreciate traditional crafts. Anyway, if Zig+AI can be the next, greatest thing, can't someone just fork it and make it happen?
People are doing the simpler thing: moving ecosystems more suppotive of their goal.
No one cares enough of zig to do it, people will just continue moving to Rust and similar.