Yea, that was my impression about the CL ecosystem and clojure made me rethink that. Nowadays it's pretty much the other way around for me - CL serves as an example of how clojure could keep dying and still be a useful tool for years to come
It's weird to me when people claim clojure is dying, yet the ecosystem is evolving rapidly and people are making money with it. It's not a model that's easy to starve, it's too lightweight to collapse under it's own load, and there's no way to kill it, so how is it dying?
Mindshare ebbs and flows, but being THE programming language was never clojure's goal.