I think it's necessary to look for such alternative approaches when the ones we're using are resulting in ~5 bugs per 1k lines of code on average, frequent security issues, crashes, race conditions, etc. Plus the hundreds of man hours spent fixing these problems.

With technology coming more and more into our lives, such that our lives will depend upon it behaving as was intended, we're really going to reach a point where we've got to say enough is enough. The languages (and approaches to development) we're using are not fit for purpose anymore.