This is well said. I wrote Clojure full-time for a few years. I was lucky to do so and get paid to learn such an interesting language and paradigm of software

This is well said. I wrote Clojure full-time for a few years. I was lucky to do so and get paid to learn such an interesting language and paradigm of software development. Aside from the points you mention, of which I agree, there is one other point I took away from the experience that many would disagree with: I really, really missed static typing. So that's the main reason I don't use Clojure as much any more and went back to other languages with a different model of typing. But I learned so much and it changed the way I work in other languages.