Blame IBM and other Smalltalk vendors.

They were the ones that almost on day one pivoted their Smalltalk offerings into Java.

Eclipse still has the Visual Age Smalltalk object browser.

If you look into OS/2 documentation, and SOM (OS/2 version of COM), you will find out Smalltalk on OS/2 had a role similar to .NET on Windows.

I think AI is the revenge of Lisp, dealing with Python without JIT, and the whole 4 GLs, CASE tooling that tried to automate programming in the 1990's, this time around it goes.