Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

Edit:

We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives…

1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#%3A~%3Atext=1.%2CEnglish+(1%2C452+million+speakers)&text=According+to+Ethnologue%2C+English+is%2Cnative+and+non-native+speakers.