Why D is not popular enough?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/12/2016 01:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 8/12/16 1:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> Honestly, I don't think that shared is broken.
>
> Yes. It is broken.
>
> shared int x;
> ++x; // error, must use atomicOp.
> x = x + 1; // OK(!)

How is this broken and how should it behave? -- Andrei