Two points: The people who write software with focus on immutability are not the same people who advocate pushing immutability down the students' throats. For

Two points: The people who write software with focus on immutability are not the same people who advocate pushing immutability down the students' throats. For example, I do write some functional code, but pragmatically. And even after that, the total share of functional code is negligible. Sad but true.