D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Dukc]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 03:50:44 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
wrote:
> Every single one of the people rushing to defend D at the time 
> has since come around. There is still some debate on whether, 
> points vs. counter points, choosing D was a good idea, but the 
> overwhelming consensus inside Weka today is that D has *fatal* 
> flaws and no path to fixing them.
>
> And by "fatal", I mean literally flaws that are likely to 
> literally kill the language.

How so? If he's right with those issues, they can definitely 
prevent D from becoming mainstream, but how would they kill D? I 
mean, will not there always be some existing users who have no 
need or wish to move on?