Or maybe just the power of network effects? ObXkcd: https://xkcd.com/191/
The failure of constructed languages seems to be an instance of "Worse is Better". Barbara Tversky makes the point somewhere that human languages benefit enormously from hundreds of years of user testing and modification.
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There's also a bootstrapping problem. How are gonna explain what things mean in your new language in the old language?
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This is an interesting observation, and a fun one to extend. It also suggests that the New Jersey approach (and analogs) would have better PR if its advocates described it as "evolved", the MIT approach as "artificial" etc.
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All languages evolved from necessity, in the absence of adequate, existing ones. New languages are not ‘needed’ enough to persist.
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