I worked on a large-ish clojure project with ~15 (people left and joined) person team for years and I haven't experienced any of your points. Sounds more like a

I worked on a large-ish clojure project with ~15 (people left and joined) person team for years and I haven't experienced any of your points. Sounds more like an new project with a group of people not quite familiar with the language yet, which would have the problems you listed in any language.