First they said that functional programming is only used for toy/proof of concept/academic things. And that’s fine, to the extent that that is true. There is

First they said that functional programming is only used for toy/proof of concept/academic things. And that’s fine, to the extent that that is true. There is a sort of real world/academenia dichotomy. But now you’re deriding functional programming because it is used on... a regular old boring backend. Used to power a non-FP-related domain (to dismiss the “I used FP to implement another FP language” critique...). On an ostensibly real-world application. And you contrast this backend with “real world utility”... This is quite confusing.