Simplicity is a positive virtue, not just a negative one. Having everything be 'just files', or compile to something that is C or C-like, and having an API that is still mostly usable on an actual TTY, are actually great, wondrous things to programmers dealing with cognitive load. Aside from projects that are essentially refinements of Unix -- Plan 9 and Fuchsia, for example -- I haven't seen anything that provides remotely as powerful an idiom. But then again, I haven't been looking. Because Unix already meets my needs just fine. It is Good Enough.
Yet there has been no shortage of attempts to do better, and they were almost all unanimously terrible. Remember how much fun it was locking handles in MacOS 7, before you could reliably play with stuff on the heap? Yeah, you probably don't. But I do. It sucked. But TBTB told us Pascal and 'cooperative multitasking' (ha!) were in; that it was gauche to touch a terminal; and that the future was remote procedure calls. Shortly thereafter, the future was OLE, or maybe CORBA, or maybe the JVM. It didn't really matter what the future actually was -- the message was always, 'C is dead, UNIX is dead, long live ____'. And here I am, unironically typing you this message on El Capitan, atop a Unix kernel, with about five terms behind the browser window, in the year of our lord 2018.
What is dead can never die. :)
Thus I'd argue that unix, and all its anachronisms, comprise the little black dress of informatics -- always in fashion.
I'd argue that is in fact deeper than that; it's an ideology; specifically, it is what I would call 'anarchist', but you might call 'decentralist' or even 'libertarian'.
Either way, I'm keeping it. I'm probably still more in love with Unix than I will ever be with any human.
P.S. also Vim called and reminded you visit Eclipse in the Old Prog's home.