It's probably not what you want to hear, but there's a "I get it" moment I reached at one point, where my intuition just all of a sudden was able to quickly pin

It's probably not what you want to hear, but there's a "I get it" moment I reached at one point, where my intuition just all of a sudden was able to quickly pin point all my errors. There's a lot of these moments in Clojure. There's one for reading the code, one day you wake up and you don't see the parenthesis anymore. There's one for prefix notation. There's one for recursion, where you suddenly figure out how to convert any loops to it. There's one for the documentation, it goes from not making sense to perfectly explaning how each function works concisely and clearly. And there's one for error messages and debugging. There might be more. So, the community and core team is aware of the learning curve hump, and always trying to improve it, but after you get over the learning hump, the challenges of debuging almost go away, and it becomes equal to any other language. At least it did for me, and it was almost an epiphany.