The problem with gherkin is that it was a badly designed language.

The general idea of "readable specification language" was an inspired one but it failed on execution - it has gnarly syntax, no typing and bad abstractions.

This results in poor tests which are hard to maintain and diverge between being either too repetitive to be useful or too vague to be useful.

The ecosystem is big but it's built on crumbling foundations which is why when most people used it most of them got frustrated and gave up on it.

Annoyingly there's a certain amount of gaslighting around it too ("it didnt work for you coz you werent using it correctly") which is eleven different kinds of wrong.