Its not Lua specifically addressing modern ailments, its the attitude that taking full control to put the same common codebase on as many of the target platforms as possible can be profitable, in light of the vendor mess which is, presumably, what we're talking about here. It can be a very disturbing thing to realise what a few tweaks here and there to package.json might do to ones love life.

Lua is a great, easy to use, easy to apply, language -- with a healthy framework ecosystem, and it is very easy to put it to use in a legacy code-base, since its C-based, and we all know that C still makes the world go around. However, its not the fact of Lua, but the fact of 'put our own VM everywhere' that wins, imho.