> I’ve got a feeling that swift is becoming a very polluted mashup of features that come from parties with conflicting interests.

There some truth to that I guess, but I'd also add that a lot of these modern multiparadigm languages feel like they're converging feature-wise (with a few outliers). I feel like Swift still has a unique enough feel to it and I enjoy working with it a lot. I think Chris Lattner has also expressed some concern about the focus on features over everything else.