It encourages dependency injection, which in my experience will eventually encourage a functional programming style since there's so little barrier to it once y

It encourages dependency injection, which in my experience will eventually encourage a functional programming style since there's so little barrier to it once you're doing things like injecting the current time into a method which makes use of it. Maybe I'll turn around in five year's time and regret saying this, but I've never regretted pushing a project in a functional direction.