I agree. Declarative systems are interesting. I am not against studying, implementing, or understanding declarative OSes from an intellectual viewpoint. Rather,

I agree. Declarative systems are interesting. I am not against studying, implementing, or understanding declarative OSes from an intellectual viewpoint. Rather, people generally speaking ignore that the declarative perspective is not teleological and doesn't reflect the teleology of an underlying OS. Imperative programs are so popular among "joe schmoe" average programmers because they have a clear teleology. People are willing to forgive that imperative programs are harder to formally reason about because they make the teleology clearer. But have you seen declarative code? Because it's like math formulas, each function needs the same kind of documentation in order to understand the teleology behind the function.