they are hypercomplex. Not only that, their complexity is largely what makes them Worse. Simplicity is rather obviously Better, not Worse. Smalltalk (which the OP cites as Better) is far simpler than its more successful peers.
It isn't about simpler it is about simpler for who. How is throwing away a million lines of C and starting from scratch in a language you have never used simpler than gently adding OO through C with classes? X86 and X64 maybe a terrible nightmare of complexity for somebody, but my apps keep working without change or recompile which is simplicity itself for me. Simplicity for you and simplicity for your customer are two entirely different things. C and Unix spread because it was capable of running everywhere and that provided real simplicity to the end customer(my software could run on lots of different hardware.)
It isn't about simpler it is about simpler for who. How is throwing away a million lines of C and starting from scratch in a language you have never used simpler than gently adding OO through C with classes? X86 and X64 maybe a terrible nightmare of complexity for somebody, but my apps keep working without change or recompile which is simplicity itself for me. Simplicity for you and simplicity for your customer are two entirely different things. C and Unix spread because it was capable of running everywhere and that provided real simplicity to the end customer(my software could run on lots of different hardware.)