Also the fact that OpenCL lost to CUDA for being stuck in C for so long, shows what most GPU devs actually prefer.
Aw come on, you're sure it has nothing to do with the largest GPGPU vendor pushing CUDA very heavily and intentionally gutting their OpenCL tools? Or putting out a ton of very high performance libraries with no OpenCL equivalent? Putting out a shitton of marketing and tutorial videos for CUDA only?
Yeah, that surely was totally unrelated.
Also pushing a proprietary standard goes faster than a standardized one. No surprise there.