This is a complicated issue.
My own personal beef is that I don’t want to commit a lot of personal investment in a programming language; if it could die with the author. And right now Inform 7 can. For example the GNU/Linux builds are allready rotting quite badly and can only get running under a modern distro with Flatpak.
It however remains the most technically and historically interesting way of making portable interactive fiction; and remains very central to the interactive fiction community. It’s natural language approach also may make it extremely accessible over some other options.
Until it’s FLOSS though building ontop of it feels like building ontop of sand to me.