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Another problem that I've noticed with FP especially (although I get the impression that OOP had this problem too when it was the new hotness, and I've seen hints of it happening with Rust) is that there seem to be a lot of novices who fall in love with the concept and start evangelizing it, convinced that This Changes Everything. But they can't back it up with a lot of practical experience, can't describe any caveats or limits to its scope, don't have useful knowledge of the practical pitfalls, and so on. So when you bring up something in your domain that seems like it would be difficult, they don't have the foundation to say "this is how you solve that kind of problem" or "yeah, that's still difficult". Instead they deflect or try to subsume it under some vague principle that doesn't actually address your concern.

[lgas]

This is a problem with people, and not at all specific to FP.