I don’t think it will ever die. There is a large enough community that will continue to live even after the current “Industry Standard” products die and new ones pop up. One of the reasons for this, is because Blender is under the GPL. Making it viral, so even if the main coders were to stop coding, someone else can pick it up and go. Same with Linux, and other big open source projects. They have a big enough user base that if the head coders were to die off, someone else will probably take their place.