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- There are high quality packages in every language.

- Likewise with mature frameworks.

- All mainstream languages have pretty good OOP features nowadays.

Thankfully yes, there is no concurrency.

what has the world come to be, where a series of commands actually running like a series of commands is hailed as an upside.

Same world since Multics.

No concurrency is a missing feature, not an upside. OOP is a broken paradigme, so no upside to be found there either.

> No concurrency is a missing feature,

That's an opinion that isn't very popular or useful.

Ignoring the multithreaded PHP runtime and fork functionality, implementing every feature (whatever user X particularly wants) in every language will never happen.

Saying OOP is a broken paradigm is irrelevant. Some people prefer it and they are users just like you, but different too.