Zig currently sits in the hype cycle like Rust/Ruby/Lisp/etc once did here. Eventually something will come along and Zig will be in the hate cycle.
In reality none of these things need the religious wars that seem to go back and forth. It's just an incredibly unfortunate and annoying aspect of how programmer-centric communities tend to go.
The objective rate of improvement in programming languages has been slower than virtually every other field. Computers have gotten millions of times faster since the advent of C, but programming languages have arguably gotten maybe 10% better in that span.
In reality none of these things need the religious wars that seem to go back and forth. It's just an incredibly unfortunate and annoying aspect of how programmer-centric communities tend to go.