"Technological advancement" could just be a decrease in the amount of thermodynamic waste created by an economy (or a particular company) as it converts oil/uranium and calories into useful work.

There's another layer of thermodynamics where wealth acts like heat. Moving jobs from a rich (hot) country to a poor (cold) one is like attaching a thermal conductor. Eventually, the two countries reach equal temperature and it's no longer possible to extract useful work (profit) from the heat transfer. AI is probably like an infinitely cold heat sink that can absorb all the heat you pour into it until your heat source reaches absolute zero.

Now, the thing that determines popularity is popularity. So Python still wins, even though its beginner friendliness isn't so important anymore.

That's what job interviews are supposed to be for. It should be easy to hire only the most skilled programmers, especially with the massive number of unemployed programmers out there right now.

Linux has this too, it's called Devuan. 90% of the reasons you'd want to move from Linux to BSD can be addressed by getting rid of everything associated with FreeDesktop.org.