I'd disagree (though it's certainly not the tool for every job). I think it has more to do with the old line that FP makes "the hard things easy but the easy th

I'd disagree (though it's certainly not the tool for every job). I think it has more to do with the old line that FP makes "the hard things easy but the easy things hard". It's a really different way of thinking about things that is intuitive if you're used to the imperative way of doing things.