There's no reason the industry can't move to new technology for new projects. No one is going to rewrite legacy applications in the new language, at least not until the transition is so far along that SQL specialists are aged out and costly. But for new things? It's totally acceptable to pick new languages.
And btw, this has already happened in some areas. Most developers I know don't code in SQL: they use an ORM provided by their language runtime or a support library. That's essentially the same thing.