This is interesting, but not something I've really struggled with in Clojure. I generally try to write small functions, at a single level of abstraction, and if

This is interesting, but not something I've really struggled with in Clojure. I generally try to write small functions, at a single level of abstraction, and if I feel there's too much complexity I'll extract part of it out. It's true that this then results in lots of names. But that's also how I write code in every other language - 90% of reasoning about code is through named variables and functions, and compositions thereof. I'm struggling to picture how this becomes an issue, unless you genuinely don't use abstractions in code at all.