[iLemming]

>I get paid to write robust software and to work with engineers that don't always have 10+ years of experience. ... > I've dealt with those cases across many languages across the years

I'm not trying to denigrate your experience, and I'm not pretending that we work in different industries and deal with very dissimilar problems. But if anything I learned from the years of writing software - there are no silver bullets. Every single tool has cons and pros. You can't just look at any instrument, framework, library, language through a tiny keyhole and make assumptions. And I'm not saying you have. Perhaps you have rich experience using Clojure that led you to the conclusions you made. From my perspective - I have the opposite of that. And again, it's not because I have not seen what you have. Clojure, in my opinion, compensates for the lack of static typing with a plethora of other features. Features that many other languages can't offer but are essential for me.