[Fellshard]

Had the same result, and had to settle for the middle ground of (lodash | underscore; I don't recall which now.)

There's a lot of resistance to adopting anything with the name functional, and that resistance is often seen in a /refusal/ to try to understand instead of a mere lack of understanding: people put up walls straightaway. I expect many need motivating examples to guide them to it.

Languages like Kotlin are pointing the way towards that middle ground far more effectively than, say, Scala did.