See the link to Rich Hickey’s talk in my other comment. It covers the issues pretty well. I’m not being contrarian, but I am expressing frustration with a comm

See the link to Rich Hickey’s talk in my other comment. It covers the issues pretty well. I’m not being contrarian, but I am expressing frustration with a common yet unnecessarily complicated approach to a general problem. But I stand by my statements, they’ve paid off tremendously in real world contexts.