Fine, now what if you need to connect to a database, or parse a PDF, or talk to a grpc backend. What a hilariously short-sighted example.
To me, this whole article just screams inexperience.
Actually his perspective is quite reasonable. Go is in the other part of the spectrum than languages encouraging "left-pad"-type of libraries, and this is a good thing.
Odin is "successful enough" so far. Also, you know about it, so that says something.
I have technically written more Odin than Hare (one Godbolt example, arguably two if you count my explaining how to modify the example to illustrate another problem) but that just means I have more justification to say I don't like it.
I've written a lot more Scheme and I had so thoroughly forgotten writing Scheme that I had to go read the source for myself when I got email about it decades later to be sure it wasn't just a coincidence of author names.
I'm not convinced there is space for any of the "C successor" languages in the twenty-first century and in the event space is made or given for one I doubt there'll somehow be room for more. So with today's field I would bet on Zig.
And there doesn't have to be "one winner". This isn't Highlander. It is just wonderful that there is now choice in this domain beyond just the old and obvious.