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I broadly agree, but I kinda take issue with the languages you chose to compare it to. All three of those bring unique things to the table, and have sizable communities. If Onyx ever reached the level of one of these, it would be a success, not a failure. Right now, it seems to be on the level of an ambitious and well documented side-project. Hell, when searching for the project's repo I found another Onyx language which seems to have had a larger community and more to offer before it died.
Zig is quietly changing the world of cross-compiling not just Zig itself, but C. You can use Zig as a pure C compiler and it will get you, for free, cross-compilation and a better build system which is much easier and more reliable than a Makefile or autotools (don't believe me? Uber is doing it ). The language itself also has a very innovative compile-time programming model which is quite interesting in and of itself! Also, it's the rare language that stays close to the simplicity of C, has no runtime or GC so is appropriate for realtime and embedded for example, has a very nice, integrated unittest system, approaches memory allocation in a completely unique way, and even before it's stable, has proven itself enough to let people implement very competent/advanced products like Bun (JS runtime) and RavenDB.