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There is an xkcd for everything
You got to it before I did. Programming languages are like vehicles. You wouldn’t take a sports car off-roading, and you wouldn’t expect a tractor to win a drag race. There is a lot you can do with an all-purpose vehicle, but it’s not going to be as good as something that is purpose-built for a single task.
I actually don't think that's the case for languages. Most languages start out from a desire to do some specific thing better than other languages rather than do everything.
If there was a single language, afterwards the same broken logic would be applied to frameworks and libraries, and we all know how many people bitch and whine over Java and it's extensive standard library.
JavaScript (is the universal language) (is also the answer of why there are so many languages)