I know what you are meaning but in reality we don't have.

yet there are likely an order of magnitude more smalltalk programmers today than there were at smalltalk's "peak"

I'd be curious to know how you quantified this. I was curious myself, so I dug into where Smalltalk landed in Stack Overflow's developer survey (which, of course, is not a complete overview of the entire programming industry!) - it seems that Smalltalk was the second most Loved language in 2017 [0], but it completely disappears off the chart in 2018 [1]. I would imagine that we've lost quite a few Smalltalk programmers...

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018

More likely, they changed the conditions.