Foundations goes back to Cantor and Frege, at least.

Set theorists have made a Whig History of sorts where everything leads to ZFC, but that is just their post-hoc reading of the intellectual history.

We can write Whig Histories too. See https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/frege/frege.pdf for example.

The fact is both narratives are wrong --- intellectual history is always more pluralistic and meandering than partisans want to admit in hindsight. We, as the underdogs, are ready to admit that. Can you all do the same?