Java is still taught in plenty of places and is entrenched enough to stick around for the foreseeable future. The JVM would still be fine even if Java the language declined. Clojure is is a much less vulnerable position than most languages in terms of VM risk, with Clojurescript and ClojureCLR.

The real benefit of native Clojure to me would be for reducing startup time and the JVM overhead in containers. The best option for this right now is CLJS, but it would be nice to just not have a runtime.