If that is all the points you make for the "middle way" to have won, then that way is actually not very middle, but still quite far towards OOP. FP needs FP da

If that is all the points you make for the "middle way" to have won, then that way is actually not very middle, but still quite far towards OOP. FP needs FP data structures. Without those, any somewhat complex program will quickly desolve into very non FP style.