I can agree with that, but once you are experienced with functional languages I think "easier to start off with" becomes a very low value. I'm assuming by start

I can agree with that, but once you are experienced with functional languages I think "easier to start off with" becomes a very low value. I'm assuming by start off with you solely mean "starting a new project" and not "starting to use language from scratch". At least that seems to be what has happened in my case.