It is a bit unfair for Cobol, given that its latest revision is from 2014, and while verbose as it might be, it supports most of the nice features of any modern multi-paradigm language.
SOAP was\is a pretty stable technology that did exactly what it promised to do, without too many releases or breaking changes for about 10 years.
Even today it has a good utility for the situations it is designed for...
RPC over a well known standard format, for tightly coupled endpoints, that require metadata, enforced schema, security, and perhaps transactions.
big problem for SOAP is it was the default for web services for a long time, when in reality a big shift happened in about 2008 where webservices were most likely NOT going to fit into those constraints. just my 2 cent
And neither of them were selling "magic" stuff like BPEL and BizzTalk.