It very much is a trend, a trend of by developers, for developers. All this is so that some primadonna developer somewhere can use the latest languages and frameworks to build his "app" without some sysadmin or other uses of available computing resources gets in his way.

It's about kicking the question of static vs dynamic can up the stack, as now you have something that is a hodgepodge of dynamic bindings that seems to behave like something static as long as you do not look behind the curtains. Oh, and don't mind the turtles...