The paradox of increased productivity

Suppose there are more productive language than C/C++ that allow you to write software much faster, just like scripting languages(ruby/python/perl).
It follows there should be a disproportionate larger volume of that software. Yet 99% (compiled) software you use is based on C/C++.

Additional trolling: People choose C/C++ software instead of high-level languages, even if presented with optimized/fast software.

Like Lisp?

Possible reasons:
Fewer communities
Less active communities
Generally unpopular
Tech industry isn't hiring for it so people don't learn it
C/C++ has libraries for said thing while language foo doesn't, regardless of how quick it would be to make those libraries

In Lisp's case, popularity in the industry tanked during the 80s due to its connection with AI and still some companies might not allow projects with lisp in the name.

C is the most productive language even though it's a bitch.

try to get some work done in lisp, you'll find yourself fucking around for hours with tools that are supposed to automatically generate bindings to C libraries.

100x easier to just program in C. You get to write the program instead of filling in holes in the ecosystem.

It doesn't have to be this way - if everybody use lisp instead of C software would be far higher quality over all but that isn't how things are.