I don't disagree with you from the perspective of someone who is already in the community and already has the experience to make that choice, but I think this q

I don't disagree with you from the perspective of someone who is already in the community and already has the experience to make that choice, but I think this question is slightly more complicated for someone with zero Clojure experience. More than once I have seen people confused on whether they should be using Lein, Boot, the first-party CLI, Maven, Shadow CLJS, Figwheel, or something else entirely.