As I already pointed out, my use of "dead" doesn't mean "no longer in use". It means no longer being selected by choice for a new project.
And your drill press example is agreeing with me, which is that, as I also already said myself, no one needs to have ever used something to be able to declare it dead, nor did I declare something dead because I don't personally use it. That's absurd.
Fortran certainly has its issues with portability and feature development, but it is by no means dead.