It's not that it doesn't work, it's that most Clojure programmers do not see the benefit since the selection of data-oriented libraries we have is much superior

It's not that it doesn't work, it's that most Clojure programmers do not see the benefit since the selection of data-oriented libraries we have is much superior in our minds. Some people (a small minority) are trying to "solve" this, but it garners little interest since most people don't see any problem.