(author here) - I've also found this to be true. The most confounding aspects of elixir tend to be choices made to fit a square object into a round hole. For ex

(author here) - I've also found this to be true. The most confounding aspects of elixir tend to be choices made to fit a square object into a round hole. For example, creating interfaces over functions so Hammox can mock them in your tests. It creates a lot of frustrating boilerplate and suddenly your actual code gets lost in the noise of indirection.