[reinman]

You as the developer are the one who has to decide which tech is worthy of your attention. And Cats are trying to compete with FP for your attention

Reducing or eliminating "functions" means reducing or eliminating the refactoring problem

[Eldt]

You are behaving defensively and a bit irrationally

[reinman]

Fair enough, I needed to improve the answer

The main claim is that crafting > functions because crafting does not have the single entry/exit drawback that functions have