Early Arduino were all AVR 8-bit, at the time it was already on the way out. There were no shifts in industry to those chips.
People who got Arduino, either:
- blinked some LEDs and forgotten about it
- switched to esp32 and/or stm32
- esp32 and esp8266 move is funny because people started buying esp8266 to add Wi-Fi to their arduinos and then realized that they can just throw away arduino all together.
- switched to cheap clones that offer more
- quick connect for that not only want to blink LEDs, but also have some cool graphs to look at (like temperature and humidity)
- boards that specifically designed for their use case (i.e. battery and eInk connectors and circuitry required)
Arduino is inconsequential to industry as whole or even to hobbyist using it.