https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/why-are-there-still-monkeys.html
People still ask, apparently in all seriousness, "Why are there still monkeys?"
The short answer is that they haven't all died out.
The question betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about evolution. It is not a single sequence with any direction "in mind" as it were, but a branching process that explores different ways to survive and reproduce. You don't ask why a tree has more than one branch. Neither do you ask why one branch of a tree can't make leaves appear on a different branch (equivalent to the so-called "kind" "barrier").
"Great apes", BTW, includes you and me.
See also https://www.iflscience.com/if-evolution-is-real-why-are-there-still-monkeys-around-today-69689
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