It's fairly easy to learn, already universal, and there is no incentive at all for 99% of people to change it (only a fraction of the population would ever want the super fast typing, rest of us have to think hard and type few). I suspect that it'll stay around unless a new form of input device that directly interfaces with human mind is created.
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> only a fraction of the population would ever want the super fast typing
I think the primary motivation for using non-qwerty layouts is comfort, not speed. Though perhaps it only really becomes relevant once one actually learns the layout (touch typing, with all the fingers), and AFAICT not a large fraction of people does that, even with qwerty.